Food critic Jay Rayner pays tribute to the chef who knocked down culinary walls
Anthony Bourdain, TV chef and travel host, found dead aged 61
Anthony Bourdain was, by his own estimation, a jobbing restaurant cook who “just got lucky”. It’s a classic bit of Bourdain understatement.
It’s true he was never a chef who was going to knock down culinary boundaries – Bourdain was schooled in the French classics – but as a writer he was massively influential, changing forever what the business of food and appetite on the page could be.
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