Godammit to hell.
Ah damn. I loved that guy.
I have one of his shows recorded that I watch over and over. It’s the one where he goes back to Les Halles where he worked as a chef for years to see if he could still hack it as a line cook. I think I’ll watch it again tonight. 
It does no good but people will do it anyway.
Terribly shocking to hear this upon waking today. His daughter is still fairly young.
What a terrible loss. May he Rest In Peace.
Damn.
He was a celebrity chef who didn’t cook. He made himself from just a line cook to worldwide superstardom. He was like an old friend who you lived vicariously through, like knowing The Most Interesting Man in the World. I’ll miss him.
If you’re ever jealous of the life of celebrities remember Anthony and Kate. Good night Anthony, hope you’ve found peace at last.
Did he ever shill for anything? Looking back, I can’t recall, but I bet I would have bought it. He came across as someone I’d like to know.
Thought he was entertaining. Thought his life style would have done him in. RIP
I can’t imagine anyone else doing Parts Unknown. He had a genuine appreciation for the food and cultures of other countries.
I both kind of want it to continue and want it to stop. I do want to see any unaired episodes he has made, even though I will now be desperately reaching to the TV to help him.
Ugh, terrible news. Amazing talent at showing the beautiful parts of cultures and cuisines around the world to the armchair traveler. Best wishes to his family.
This is a shocker. I saw him at a book signing for Kitchen Confidential when it came out, and I wanted to bottle the testosterone that surrounded him.
I wonder if he had gotten some sort of a bad diagnosis. He was only 61, but he looked older than my 95 year-old father. Really hard living explains some of it, but I wonder if there was some sort of difficult illness in his future.
Thank you, Anthony, for all you’ve done for people around the world. The tributes pouring in testify to how you have helped so many.
Aw, man! That’s horrible! He was quite a character.
Me too. Just watched their episode where they got Ripert to eat spicy food in China. Loved that one.
Sad to know that Ripert goes on to find Bourdain dead. Will be even harder to watch those episodes in the future.
What do you think are some of the psychological factors which make rock stars/other people in enviable circumstances kill themselves whereas others who have much less are happy or at least don’t sink so low as to kill themselves? Relatedly, what are their lives empty of?
As I was getting ready for work this morning, I was remembering an episode of No Reservations. He had gone to the coast of France where he and his family used to vacation, and his brother came along. His brother called him a “perpetual malcontent”. This mindset is good if you want to be roving the world and traveling, but not so good for mental health.
And yes, he did look far older than his age. I’m 61 too, but Tony looked like my dad at the end.
His Twitter bio was a single word, “Enthusiast”. I’m sad that his pain was such that it wasn’t enough to hold him here.
Shit.
Been enjoying his shows for years, getting a vicarious taste of numerous countries I probably won’t ever get around to visiting in my lifetime. His death is still breaking news, only a few hours old, but its impact already feels a lot like the death of Prince a couple of years ago. In watching his travels, I was always envious of his impossibly broad palate and his facile connections with locals across a huge range of cultures and socioeconomic levels. He genuinely enjoyed visiting places I could never see myself going to and eating things I could never think of putting in my mouth (that’s a criticism of me, not him), and my reaction was always along the lines of “I wish I could enjoy that the way he does.”
Was really hoping he’d outlive Paula Deen. RIP my friend.
According to his Wikipedia page, he had a two-pack-a-day cigarette habit until around 2007. Hard living indeed.
If someone has succumbed to MS, at 61, after a long battle we’d all be calling them a fighter.
I think I’m gonna choose to see someone who fought a long, treacherous battle with mental illness, and gave it his all just to make it all the way to 61.
Wish you could have stayed longer though, loved you. Loved your shows!