Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain BOOK REVIEW/THOUGHTS

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[@BetterThanFoodBookReviews]

*Edit* His first article was published in the New Yorker, not the New York Times.

[@josephpope3993]

This is coming in SUPER late, but I treasure this review vid. I had watched Anthony Bourdain for many years before his passing. I had watched a forgotten episode where he ate at Scott's Bar-Be-Que on his tour of South Carolina. Its just fifteen minutes from my house, and hearing this review reminded me of that episode later. I read his Kitchen Confidential before canoeing out of my house post-Hurricane Florence circa 2018. I miss his attitude, his writing style, his personality. He set up a beacon, and I am forever grateful for his his impact on the food industry and writing industry. Most importantly, his impact as a person. I miss him. May someone else's god have mercy on him.

[@BetterThanFoodBookReviews]

The coffee lottery was done, but not included. The winner was Vi. Thanks to everyone for supporting the show.

[@susanna2888]

He was my hero too, so many of us were touched by his life, and it is such a tragedy that an incredible man like him had to go threw whatever it was going on in his mind. But it is like that adage "This too shall pass." You are the Anthony Bourdain of books to me (But please take care of yourself and meet a better, happier end than him at a bright old age). Great video, keep them coming.

[@myitreya5868]

If it wasn't for him I would have never known what Iran was really like,along with Ainu people's struggle to be more accepted within Japanese society and really so much more. I remember finding no reservations back when I was still in high school and watching it weekly. I was socked to see him go , literally that first thing I saw that morning . Thank you for this great video!!!!!!!!

[@ian_strachs]

He was never really on my radar whilst alive but thank you so much for the introduction to his work and for a heartfelt tribute to someone who positively impacted your life. I hope you're managing as well as you can

[@BetterThanFoodBookReviews]

All is well, much appreciated, thanks for watching.

[@itsalreadygone]

Thank you so much for this video. As a young man, 'finding himself' in a period on the brink of maturity, Bourdain's death, like you say, really changed everything I considered to be a life worth striving for. It's very hard to process still--Robin Williams' death was also very troubling. You touch on so many points that mean a lot to me, and have helped to put thoughts into words. Like Bourdain, I admire your work, too--tremendously. Don't ever change. Best, Alex

[@soumyasharma9662]

Thank you so much for making this review. It motivated me to pick it up and absolutely blew my mind. I'm saddened and bringing up the same questions as you after finishing it....he did everything he wanted to, uplifting his peers and this industry while battling his addiction and depression. A man so highly self aware and grounded in everything he did... Its really tragic 😔

[@brainfragrances]

One of the first books I enjoyed reading as a teen, later re-read it after seeing most of his shows. Got me into buying 2 Burroughs books and lowkey started my love for reading

[@guninmouthblues]

On the "Turned out a Punk" podcast is a very good episode (48) where Boudain talks about (New York) Punkrock and his favourite music in general. That guy influenced so many lives in a positive way.

[@wanndon170]

I have love snd respect for the little “oyster “ Anthony Bourdain first ate alive in France. My focus is equal to both lives & WHY?

[@lilyell6978]

This was beautiful brother. We're gonna make it

[@hmh4951]

Well said. Thanks for this. He was a beautiful man and a hero of mine, too. As a fellow recovering addict and as a writer, he showed me that it's possible to come back from the depths better than ever. That we can make something great out of the pain, and as Proust said, that happiness is beneficial for the body, but it's grief that develops the powers of the mind. The fact of the matter is, depression is a motherfucker and a liar. I hope Bourdain has found peace now.

[@aniketsanyal5586]

This video was very much needed. Well put together thoughts, Cliff and thank you so much for that. Also liked the mention of Mark Kozelek's music at any given time, now I have to go check out a song I'm not familiar with. Hope you're well sir, I'm working on John Fahey's Dance of Death biography now and a very happy reading to you

[@somsuvramukherjee]

He was an inspiration for so many of us. Great video and keep up the good work.

[@elhermeneutico]

I honestly saw many Bourdain gestures and humour around here. Rest in peace, gentleman.

[@clairejoy1053]

Thank you so much for this video. Your balanced view of life is immensely helpful.

[@SputnikExperiment]

... sometimes, when you're naturally ambitious and you achieved your heart's desire there's a feeling of emptiness and unbearable loneliness even when you have people in your life who love you. I don't claim to know what went through Bourdain's mind nor do I care to speculate. I respect the man too much to do that. There is a tragedy in success especially when it becomes the single important thing in life. Obsession always begs one question once it's satisfied: Is that all there is? Emotionally, it can be a real let down. Hang in there, Cliff. And cheers Tony, you lived a good life.

[@Gooders478]

Presuming he wasn't murdered of course. My guess is a lot of prominent people who might have had something to say about the great reset were pre-emptively offed in the run up to it.

[@heycat6844]

Nice comparison to Tom Waits.Would you consider doing music reviews?Tom's songs are like short stories anyways,extremly narrative,you could review an album,easily.

[@billshire2681]

"The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware." (HST). Think about who he served and there's your answer.....

[@billypilgrim1]

Thanks so much for this Cliff, I'll miss Tony.

[@Julius_Seizure]

When will you review Infinite Jest? I know it's a huge under taking but Im curious as to your thoughts on the book.

[@gonzalomondacaoyanader3427]

dude, im still waiting for your 'savage detectives' review!

[@judet7340]

alone but together in this. Keep it up. hope we always would find the strength and bravery to move on and move on with will for the future and loyalty to the past.

[@bettyreads222]

thanks for sharing your thoughts. literature really does help, i've been dealing with some physical ailments for quite a while and reading when i have the energy really was energy boosting. hope you're taking care of yourself as well.

[@EamonnSheehy]

Well said Cliff. And definitely...the booze...a sneaky substance that can suck the spirit out of the best of us. Great video. Must pick up a copy of this. I like my food, I love my punk and hardcore, my travel, and my Burroughs and Rimbaud. But I haven't read a combination of this :)

[@PotatoCandyDarling]

Who did you want Burdain to play in Story of the Eye?

[@kieran_forster_artist]

Finally someone honestly opens up about this horror

[@petemoss8522]

Why is everyone so willing to believe that suicides are suicides, and not homicides masked as suicides? From the time the news broke, it was labeled a suicide, with no investigation, toxicology tests, or phone/computer forensics. There are two things I know about Anthony Bourdain, that would preclude his having committed suicide 1) his love for his daughter, and 2) his maniacal punctuality. If he knew he wasn't going to be somewhere, and friends were counting on him to show, he would've phoned, texted, or hand-wrote a note, explaining his absence. The fact that he didn't do this is a huge, red flag, that there was foul play. I weigh these facts of his against any assumed "demons" of his past drug addictions, or struggling through dark and lonely times, or the trite cliches of not knowing what harsh things might go on in the mind of an outwardly successful chef/writer. People are all too willing to allow the mainstream media to convince them of a "fact," without questioning or investigating it. Shame on anyone who convicts Bourdain, in the court of public opinion, without a fair trial, and a presumption of innocence.

[@Reiselust1978]

Janine from Canada was asked to do a channeling with him kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIuugHmZg5d9aqM

[@WinstonCornish]

Thank you for this video it was absolutely beautiful and very well thought out.

Would you care to share what happened with the _Story of the Eye_ project? : ( I remember you made a video about it a while ago...

[@nyreeshropshire712]

so important RIP

[@aldovergara9035]

Beautiful!

[@anushreerao8807]

❤️

[@jwb1883]

Thank you.

[@bluedreamer1941]

You could still be the Anthony Bourdain of books but rewrite the ending.

[@azaraelhyzer3874]

Rip

[@giggletushjr]

Read Julius Evola. The man flipped the world on its head for me. We lack anything beyond ourselves in this point in history. Thanks for this video. Keep it up!

[@AleksandarBloom]

and?

[@giggletushjr]

dominic romani, effectively. However, he became disillusioned with it pretty quickly. He didn't support it as much as saw it as a potential tool for bringing back tradition. He was more supportive of nazism, while still having issues with them. Regardless, if one is to read Mishima, one must be able to read Evola.

[@giggletushjr]

Scandy97, allow me to disagree. Metaphysics of War isn't really a book. I agree that his essays are more accessible and practical, but the trilogy is fantastic. I also enjoyed Mystery of the Grail and The Path to Cinnabar.

Julius Evola is relevant perhaps to disillusioned incely 17 year olds. It gave me a ton of good laughs though, when I browsed through some of his stuff in a library the other day, so it does have it's merits.

[@luharvinayak914]

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[@mike9913]

He couldn't keep it together with women he had made commitments to. Smoked, drank. RIP.

[@tarikivankovic5790]

Your presentation lacks basic stucture and methodology. You seriously should consider studying philosophy and literary criticism if you dont want to come across as one of many ppl on youtube just blaberring about books they've read. In all your videos you use words to paint a certain image of a book as dark, esoteric, degenerate, nihilistic, decadent etc. And your choice of books you review falls in that category (authors like Huysmans, Houellebecq, Lautreamont, Sade, Pessoa etc.), but you can't inform your audience about ideas presented in certain books, or even articulate correctly the meanings and definitons of the same words you are using. In other words all I have learned from your videos is that you are "amazed", and that you are "blown away" by sheer awesomeness of some author. Really ? Typical for freelance book reviewers, shallow and sensationalist approach. You simply don't know how to do an essay, a video essay maybe, but you fail to accomplish the most basic form of literature.

[@steeping]

Speaking of criticism devoid of substance

[@tarikivankovic5790]

Speaking of criticism as regards the avoidance and deprivation of substance.

[@steeping]

Tarik Ivankovic Can you provide examples of some of the philosophical ideas that you feel are being underrepresented? I am genuinely interested.

[@tarikivankovic5790]

Sure! Besides the fact that the best way is to find it yourself by watching all of his videos, because in this narrow medium of youtube comments I can't provide whole series of such examples, I can give a glimpse of some. For example in a video about Huysamans who he adores, he didn't show an understanding of such notions like decadent or even aesthete, he just takes it for granted, he doesn't mention historical context of fin de siecle, which is easier part, and not to mention his ignorance of philosophical ideas that gave birth to such literature. Not only Schopenhauerian negation of will for life which is his pessimistic ground, Nietzschean notion of Dyonisian ambundance of vital energy vs. Apollonian rational structure which is the core theoretical background of every aesthete, his esoterical and mystical roots in teachings of French Kabbalist, his catholicisim originating from St. Augustin, Meister Eckhart and so on. On more literary note, Huysmans is a disciple of Zola, so he has in his narrative structure naturalistic elements which he later modified in order to progress towards decadentism which so magnificently impressed Wilde. From his videos we can't find out anything about narrative technics, structure, ideas of some book. Structure is there for a reason, you can't abstract a 'story' of a book from its body. Reading a book is an aesthetical voyage which(aesthetis) in its geek etymology means "that which is available to our senses through the form". And the idea in Greek means simply a form, through which we can come to substance as you said, of that book. And this is only a fracture of critisim. If you take his videos about Dostojevsky's Notes form the undergroud where you cant find anything about the things Dostoevsky is famous for from his literary tools like poliphony about which Bakhtin wrote extensively, to his psychological insight, and his battle with philosophical nihilism on one side and religious experience on the other. Eco's The name of the rose has been raped by the ignorance of poststructulism and postmodernism, Sade's The philosophy in the boudoir by not having contextual understanding of whole French enlightment and the role of pornography, his notions of evil vs good which echoes also in his video about Lautreamont. And so on..

[@QuadrivialArts]

+Tarik Ivankovic; none of that matters if you have passion and style. Try managing your expectations.

[@thebettybassettproduction2458]

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[@wetfart1387able]

Do you ever read Stephen King? Say, The Stand? Also, The Art Of Fielding; have you read that? If not, do you have plans to read it?

[@bobsbigboy_]

LOL

[@benjaminevans5674]

Man, you've got a great channel here. Keep it up!

[@IAreHeadingForTheSun]

One of your best if not THE best review you have done for this channel so far. Really nice, man.

[@carlyingram9061]

Such a beautifully done video. Anthony was such an incredible force.. and you understand every aspect of him. Wow, what a video ❤️

[@nickbarrettfilm]

Another great review CS, your channel's one of the few oasis points of consciousness expansion in the fug of youtube's blah - and of course some thoughtful and empathic words here for those in need, I salute you. Better Than Food is fast becoming essential food for thought - keep doing what you're doing.

[@SalvadorCalaf]

I remember when I was a teenager I ate my first oyster, also I remember when I read his book. R.I.P. Anthony Bourdain.

[@grantjohnson697]

I really needed this, Cliff. Thank you.

[@happymaskedguy1943]

Well done for posting the number for those with suicidal thoughts. I definitely agree-booze will drag you down. It is insidious as hell.

[@dalaimommadrama8929]

Years and years of hearing family say to me when I tell them I am drowning, "You have everything...you are blessed...you have kids and a husband and a house...get up and do something...quit being ungrateful". Never will some people understand that no matter all you have...that you still appreciate and thank the heavens you have...yet despite all that, you still find it difficult to be happy. It's not a matter of having all kinds of things that make you happy. It's having all that and still the sadness consumes.

[@MBCthunderstruck]

Just wanted to drop by and say thanks for introducing me to the song The Robin Williams Tunnel! It’s fantastic. To be honest I didn’t even expect to watch this video since I didn’t really know that much about Bourdain, but I started watching it and stayed until the end. I think that has to be a real sign of the high quality that your reviews have. Managing to stay interesting even to people who didn’t really care all that much about what you’re reviewing before watching it. You’re doing good work, man. Oh also, for people who didn’t check out the song: just listen to it. It’s 16 minutes long and will have you in a trance almost instantly

[@hhdhpublic]

Saddly sickness, neither mental nor physical, doesnt look at wealth, wisdom, social standing, anything, when it strikes. Sometimes it is something small, a cold, sometimes something chronic and sometimes it goes into remission only to flares up again in the worst of moments leading to devastating consequences.

[@Malik-ji3mz]

This hit me real hard as well. I understand all of the questions you were asking at the end. If I may recommend something, maybe read this: observer.com/2018/06/anthony-bourdain-suicide-and-grace/ I think it best captures what you were talking about while also offering, maybe, a way to look at it all that’s hopeful.

[@Reiselust1978]

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[@thebettybassettproduction2458]

Hi, I've been diving deep into Anthony Bourdain, so I hear you. It sounds to me like your question for a sense of significance a meaning to life and when you look upon the life and struggles of Anthony Bourdain then he's the mold. I've read a lot of world history books and I understand that since the beginning of homo sapiens there's been 80,000 generations. I know that you're special. Because like Anthony Bourdain inspires you you inspire me. A close friend of mine his mother died during childbirth he's had a cocaine addict since the age of 19 when he inherited $180,000 he gave 19,000 to his dad his dad's second wife asked him to locate his father because she hadn't seen him for days when he did finally catch up to his dad it was at a motel he was strung out on cocaine he left his wife and that part of his life and I really don't know the rest of the story but my best friend he has 9 months left to live in this world because he has lung cancer and it's not curable he worked with masonry and all of what he breathed into his lungs couldn't be gotten rid of aside from that he smoked a lot but since that day at the motel he's had a cocaine habit He's in the middle of a divorce and he's just he has nothing he isolates his best friend shot his sister who was like a mother figure to him in the head because she was cheating around anyway my best friend was in the middle of it and the police actually thought that he was a person that did the shooting so he just can't escape the enormity of trauma and the vacuousness of having an absentee parent He doesn't have any savings all of his money goes to buying cocaine So why am I telling you this Because it's an end of life story Similar to that of Anthony Bourdain or anyone else who has lived and died He's not yet perished but the end is closed at hand and for you and me we don't know when that moment will be just that he has a definitive endpoint So we have the luxury of sitting back and considering our paradigm I don't know the meaning of life According to nature then it is simply about procreation who's to argue with that because what is more beautiful than a baby regardless or despite of the length of its longevity Just that it existed despite anybody therein lay meaning I have a suspicion that your life and Anthony's life included parents that adored you that is entirely unlike my experience or my friend's experience So our life is like a boat anchored and adrrift upon the ocean not directly set upon a destination at least that's been my struggle and I'm 55 years old I don't know if Anthony's friend Eric Ripert with his Buddhist ideology Can shed enlightenment upon the question of meaning I would encourage you to look into meditation though because you're obviously powerful externally and by all means she do have a very determined internal discipline But if you meditate everyday then they're in lies a different superpower that I would wish for you I think that's always that you're impacting the world is extraordinarily significant you are the Anthony Bourdain of what you do that's just my opinion At the end of the day that is your contribution to others which is entirely admirable I can't say that the meaning of life is having kids having friends having money having close relationships having a journey worth being on Maybe the meaning of life is defining a quest In the end Clifford truly life doesn't require meaning in my eyes because we are on a pale blue dot we're in if we look across the universe endlessly there is no other life so how special does that make us Perhaps the meaning of life is merely to enjoy a very brief time under the sun because every moment and every breath they're in lies a gift to us something special and unique upon all of space and time I just want to say that you're incredibly special to me and I just want to say thank you for all the forces that has ever contributed to bringing you to each moment because you contribute so much Betty

[@mimig6511]

Sometimes, I think I just need to hear your words. Thank you.

[@deQI-vx3pv]

Plugging the suicide prevention telephone number is lazy imo. Depressed people don't want to talk to a stranger who doesn't really care about them

[@totallynotalpharius2283]

If it helps one person it’s worth it dude

[@RB939393]

Do you like Red House Painters?

[@tinypeas]

japanese to english and english to japanese

[@bobsbigboy_]

hows the story of the eye film going?

[@Livingeidolon]

Just because he ended it, doesn't mean that it wasn't a life worth living. Sometimes, you just can't keep putting one foot in front of the other.