Remembering Anthony Bourdain

Mon, 12 July 2021

15:28

"In 1999, Anthony Bourdain, then a chef at Les Halles brasserie, published "Don't Eat Before Reading This,' an essay that chronicled his days and nights as a Manhattan cook. The piece, his first for The New Yorker, heralded the arrival of a singular new voice in food writing. With crackling precision, Bourdain gave us a peek behind the curtain at the high-energy yet opaque world of professional cooking. "Good food, good eating,' he observes, "is all about blood and organs, cruelty and decay.'"

The New Yorker's searing tribute to Anthony Bourdain, the chef, writer, columnist, humanitarian, the world lost too soon, three years ago.

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