Posted on 06/08/2018 4:27:53 AM PDT by navysealdad
There was that 30ish noted chef out of Chicago that had a mouth cancer.
Radiation therapy knocked out his taste buds for quite a while, but he had a good taste memory, and was actively creating dishes for the months his taste sense was knocked out.
(And in the fictional movie "Eat Drink Man Woman", ... old chef, tast buds, tasting assistant... )
“A liberal ego dead by his own hands. YAWN”
He didn’t used to be so political. Reminds me in a way of David Letterman, who went from a funny guy in the early 80’s to being an absolute ass and lefty wacko.
Still, Bourdain maintained this odd connection and friendship with Ted Nugent right up to the end.
Really? There was some tweet or public communication from Tony to his GF for being with the other guy? And then she wore the F You shirt meant for him? Yikes. I sure wouldn’t want that on my conscience. Horrible.
No woman is worth all that. No man. No one. If he had been able to take that pain, life would have gotten good again. It makes me very sad. Also, what kind of a person publicly rubs it in the other one’s face?
Or was it suicided?
http://theredelephants.com/anthony-white-people-need-disappear-bourdain-dead-61/
Anthony ‘White People Need to Disappear’ Bourdain Dead At 61
That’s what I said...
Not for being spurned and not at 61
He was tall and thin and rich
He coulda replaced her easy
Makes no sense
I suspect it was rash and alcohol influenced
I have D&OIP&L on my wish list. I’m currently reading Emile Zola’s The Belly of Paris. (Good timing, since AB was the chef of Les Halle.)
The Belly of Paris is Les Halles centrales, the enormous market complex built by Baron Haussmann in the 1850s. Into it flowed great rivers of vegetables, cheeses, butter, fish and meats, and out of it sewers of blood and putrefaction.
I occasionally watched a program to a destination of interest, but after reading his childish anti Trump meltdown, we took the program off of auto record
These people are such dumbasses. They try to run a business then alienate half of their base, while putting others jobs at risk
They truly are mentally ill, and Bourdain showed it by taking his life. GR
Thus I encourage everyone to watch the "Tuscany" episode (it's free on DailyMotion).
It's one of the best, if not the best episode, but pay particular attention to the butcher reciting Dante from memory at the end. It is GLORIOUS.
Absolutely. Asia Argento has a poisonous persona made from decades of daddy issues.
She made jejeune, trite movies that attempted to be sacrilegious but were just dumb.
Oh and supposedly somewhere along the way Harvey molested her. Quel dommage...
He died out of prison despite threatening POTUS. He worked for CNN. I’m sorry. But I’m happy.
the look in this guy’s eyes was always evil.
Like he literally was demon possessed.
Fitting end I’d say unfortunately. Oh well...
The height of the Baby Boom was 1957. The word “postwar” always confuses everybody. There are HUGE numbers of boomers before and after 1957.
To me, it points to our spiritual vapidness in comparison to them. It's the only thing that explains the above statistic.
It's not odd at all, the spiritual aspect aside:
When life is a struggle just to physical survive, not get drilled by Native American arrows, done in by the physicians of the time, or any of a thousand other threats we have mostly mitigated today, there is I think a lot less tendency to off oneself.
Another way to look at it is that the survival of one's tribe is no longer much / directly affected by aberrant behavior (including suicide). This has been largely true for some time now, but perhaps it is now really beginning to "catch up" with "vulnerable" individuals.
In the past, well, there were still some examples, of course: Meriwether Lewis always struck me as a particularly tragic one. But relatively few of his contemporaries at or above his level of achievement suffered a similar fate.
I do agree that lack of spiritual depth is a major factor in the current number of these tragedies. However, even then, there are exceptions: I witnessed a situation in particular, where a very fine young Christian man from a very good family, who had even strongly considered and worked toward becoming a pastor (he went to LCMS "Seminary" until depression forced him out), committed suicide after a long struggle with depression. I have to believe in such an instance this is due to neuro-chemical imbalances. But that does raise a question: Could something in modern diet or the environment affect such balances?
I loved “Blood, Bones and Butter” too. Been meaning to read the Marco Pierre White book.
Have you read Bill Buford’s “Heat” about Dario Cecchini, the butcher. He cooks these days more than I would expect here in Los Angeles.
But, yes, there are great cooking books ... Pepin and more.
All her stuff is excellent.
She wrote, sadly, about when her first book was published, and she sent it to her family in California. Then she went home for some holiday or other and no one mentioned the book. Finally, at dinner, she said did you ever get the book? Her father said oh yes it's over there on the table and everyone went on with dinner and that was it.
She had a complete hissy fit, and her father responded by saying, "Mary Frances, you may leave the table."
I never stopped loving her after that.
Why should I care?
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