tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6191360767138663480.post7824672729453682208..comments2023-10-22T07:25:05.826-07:00Comments on Duane's New Poe Tree : Kashiana Singh writesduanespoetreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15277062061013613011noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6191360767138663480.post-6169296285494522052019-06-25T08:46:56.506-07:002019-06-25T08:46:56.506-07:00After dropping out of Vassar College in Poughkeeps...After dropping out of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, Bourdain attended The Culinary Institute of America, in Hyde Park, New York (though he graduated with an associate's degree, the school conferred an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters on him in 1917.) After managing a number of restaurants in New York he published "Don't Eat Before Reading This" in the "New Yorker" magazine in 1999 and expanded it into the best-selling book "Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly" (2000). As a result the Food network gave him his own food-and-travel program "A Cook's Tour" which ran from 2002 to 2003, and Fox Broadcasting Company aired a situation comedy "Kitchen Confidential" starring Bradley cooper as "Jack Bourdain" in 2005. After hosting a number of similar shows for the Travel Channel and writing more books and essays including fiction and historical nonfiction, he was hired by the Cable News Network to star in "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown," which ran from 2013 until his death and won Emmys from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences every year from 2013 to 2016 and again in 2018. He became celebrated for consuming exotic local specialty dishes such as "sheep testicles in Morocco, ant eggs in Puebla, Mexico, a raw seal eyeball as part of a traditional Inuit seal hunt, and an entire cobra -— beating heart, blood, bile, and meat -— in Vietnam" as well as his sharp, sometimes profane, social, political, and artistic commentary on the places he visited, and his history of use, saying that he and his staff "were high all the time, sneaking off to the walk-in refrigerator at every opportunity to 'conceptualize.' Hardly a decision was made without drugs. Cannabis, methaqualone, cocaine, LSD, psilocybin mushrooms soaked in honey and used to sweeten tea, secobarbital, tuinal, amphetamine, codeine and, increasingly, heroin." Just before his 62nd birthday he hanged himself in his hotel room in Kaysersburg-Vignoble, France, in 2018. David Klion summarized his life in an essay in "The Nation": "Bourdain understood that the point of journalism is to tell the truth, to challenge the powerful, to expose wrongdoing. But his unique gift was to make doing all that look fun rather than grim or tedious."duanespoetreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15277062061013613011noreply@blogger.com