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  meindnoch
  I have never been particularly fond of Bourdain, nor have I fully understood the widespread fascination with his jet-setting New York hipster persona.He played a significant role in popularizing a now-familiar posture among affluent Americans: the earnest declaration that "travel is my passion", followed by carefully curated excursions to economically disadvantaged countries, enthusiastic consumption of the local cuisine, and a subsequent return home marked by self-congratulatory reflections on how much they have supposedly "learned" about other cultures.The phenomenon is difficult to admire. It resembles a kind of cultural primitivism - an unintentional revival of archaic rituals in which consuming the body of the enemy was believed to confer insight, power, or spiritual essence. In this modern iteration, wealth functions as the enabling mechanism: privileged travelers fly abroad to ingest cuisines, aesthetics, and experiences, mistaking consumption for understanding and appetite for empathy.One returns, enriched - spiritually, one assumes - having eaten well.
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  mirandrom
  I went down the same rabbit hole and did the exact same thing last week in a fit of procrastination. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46185128Would appreciate a shout-out if you saw it and were inspired, otherwise it's nice to see others converging independently on the same thing.
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  thecsw
  A companion to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46054879, we now had successfully recovered all the remaining li.st entries of Anthony Bourdain that were thought to be lost to time.Please enjoy—there is nobody like Tony.
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  tedggh
  Loved his series until he visited my hometown and completely misrepresented it. I get his style was anti establishment and mainstream, but he ended up hanging out with the wrong crowd in town, one of them known for being a fraudster, a spoiled child running bad restaurant after bad restaurant. Somehow these guys managed to be featured in the show as the progressive minds of local cuisine. It made me question everything else I have watched from Bourdain.
• antihoney
  Very happy to see these recovered and archived :)! I hope images are able to be recovered, super curious about which records he was talking about.
• nicwolff
  His favorite bar, Siberia, is also back, now at the south end of the Columbus Circle subway station. Same owner, Tracy, and same no-frills atmosphere.
• tsujamin
  > Great Dead Bars of New York:> 1. SIBERIA in any of its iterations. The one on the subway being the best.Timely, as the latest reincarnation of SIBERIA just re-opened in 59th Street/Columbus Circle station
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  wintermutestwin
  I know we shouldn’t be discussing website design, but using light grey font on a white background is not only ugly, it is basically illegible for anyone with oldster eyes.
• RALaBarge
  I am big fan and it was sad to me when he died. It’s bizarre to me how much CNN runs content featuring him without ever acknowledging he is dead. You’d think he was alive based on how often they flaunt his content.
• msephton
  Any movie list that features Tampopo is good by me.
• Grosvenor
  Worthwhile for the hotel and book recommendations.Obviously he has better food taste than I do, so those too. I will shit like a mink and love it.
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  haunter
  >Kramer knives: I don’t own one. I can’t afford oneI highly doubt he couldn't afford a $2,500 knife https://kramerknives.com/product-category/latest-creations/
• vasco
  People who abandon their kids don't really have anything to teach you. There's isn't much worse you can do. But in this case Anthony did that also:> Anthony Bourdain paid a $380,000 settlement to actor Jimmy Bennett in 2018 to silence allegations that Asia Argento had sexually assaulted him in 2013, when Bennett was 17 and Argento was 37Great role model. People see a guy that looks cool and says edgy shit and that's it, he is now a great person, lol.
• toomuchtodo
  Kudos to those who performed recovery and snatched back from the sands of time.
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  amiban
  thank you very much for doing this. I'm a huge bourdain fan, and despite many of his shortcomings as a human i think he was one of the MOST interesting people in the zeitgeist. just seemed so authentic, real, and visceral. his parts unknown series is some of the best human anthro content ever put on TV. this was a very interesting read!
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  throwaway12345t
  love these, wonder what avenues still exist for the image archivesI imagine they exist in an AWS or GCP rack somewhere, too bad
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  treesknees
  At the risk of being downvoted… for the uninitiated among us, what’s interesting about these or the person? I understand he was a chef and had several TV shows. Is it just celebrity fascination?
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