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    Anthony Bourdain is a critically acclaimed chef, writer, and television star. He has appeared in shows such as “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations”, “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown”, and “Top Chef,” and published works such as “Don’t Eat Before Reading This”, “Medium Raw”, and “The Nasty Bits.” Trained at Vassar College the Culinary Institute of America, Bourdain is known for his love of food. In 2000, he wrote a book called Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, and his first

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    Chef Anthony Bourdain is an Author, Television Host, a Blogger, an Outspoken Commentator, and a Rock star. He is a celebrity chef that went through hell and back to be to the Chef and writer he is today. Chef Bourdain’s Career and personal life, has been through the mud, through the musk, and the beer. Yet, he is now one of the most, influential and honest Celebrity Chef. Well known for his harmonic look, at, cuisines around the World. His passion for cooking has also reflected on his writing.

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    Anthony Bourdain was born on June 25, 1956 in New York City. Son to a copy editor and music producer, he quickly learned to love literature and rock music. He has said that he was raised without religion, and that his ancestors were Catholic on his father’s side and his mother’s side they were Jewish, which definitely contributed to his later cooking styles. He has also stated that his love for food came from a family vacation in France, where he tried an oyster. Graduating from Dwight-Englewood

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    chef, author, and food critic, Anthony Bourdain reflects on his childhood experiences and his passion for food. According to Bourdain, food has more meaning beyond being a substance. Food is filled with stories and power that can change a life. In the article, Bourdain reflected on his family vacation to Europe, which piqued his curiosity for food and started his passion. To begin with, Bourdain first trip was to his father’s ancestral homeland, France. The Bourdain family summer vacation started

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    Anthony Bourdain was a chef, a writer, a TV host, and a celebrity. He taught people that brunch was a scam, that putting pen to paper is as much a noble act as it is a narcissistic one, that you really only need one outfit when you travel, and that selling out when you don’t have to is one of the fouler things a privileged person chooses to do. But more than that, Bourdain taught people that one of the most reliably good parts of humanity is getting the chance to learn — and succumbing to it. Bourdain

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    Anthony Bourdain (American chef and author), in his show, “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown: Brazil” (2013) evaluates how a country’s culture is made of more than its current circumstance. Bourdain grabs the viewers’ attention by using his personal experience and aspects of the everyday culture. His goal is to show the world that the best way to learn about a country is through active participation in the culture. His use of informal diction, coupled with cultural dialect, establishes a trusting relationship

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    Daniel Boulud Chef Daniel Boulud was born in March of 1955 in Saint Pierre de Chandieu, France. Raised on a farm just outside of Lyon he was granted access to fresh, seasonal ingredients and contributed to his desire to become a Chef. At the young age of only fifteen years old Chef Boulud earned his first recognition when he was a finalist in a competition in France for the best culinary apprentice. As an apprentice Chef Boulud worked under Roger Verge, Michel Guerard, and Georges Blanc before he

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    personality, chef, author and world traveler Anthony Bourdain has launched a new website; a must visit for all fans of Emmy-winning CNN Original Series, Parts Unknown, which are now entering into its 9th season. The website is a partnership among CNN and digital journal Roads & Kingdoms with Bourdain as an editor-in-large and an investing partner. Explore Parts Unknown is an extension of series and delivers exciting experience with hours of engaging content that Bourdain has collected over the past 16 years

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    interesting book. Bourdain doesn’t talk about the head chef, sous chef, or any of the glory of the restaurant world, instead he focuses on behind-the-scenes in the kitchen. He gives us a brief intro and makes it clear to the reader that Kitchen Confidential was not inspired by resentment or disgust with the restaurant industry. Heck, he is still there because of his love for the kitchen. Rather, his goal was to paint an accurate and brutally honest life of a restaurant chef. Bourdain is brutally honest

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    Anthony Bourdain, world renowned chef and television personality, in his autobiography Kitchen Confidential (2000), conveys his experiences working in the restaurant business-high tension and new stressors at just about every corner. More specifically in the chapter “Food is Pain,” he convinces his audience that the abilities to maintain concentration, handle stress, and keep pace with the quick movement of a high-pressure environment are extremely important. Bourdain shapes this through an anecdote

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