Very sad. He was to me the greatest anthropologist. https://t.co/MlgDzWpjlp — Daniel Everett (@amazonrambler) June 8, 2018
When I got up this morning I thought I’d be writing a post about Joe Rogan. And in that post I figured I’d mention his conversation with Anthony Bourdain. Instead wake to find that Bourdain is dead, an apparent suicide at 61.
I don’t know what to say. You never know, do you?
Bourdain was one of the good ones. Muhammad Ali took boxing beyond boxing into politics. Anthony took food TV beyond food. It took it into adventure and, above all, in culture and society. Food became a way to explore the variety of human life, to explore the multiplicity and richness of human nature.
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I suppose my favorite episode of Parts Unknown is the Congo episode. Here’s a brief post on it. If you’ve got Netflix, here’s a link to it.
