Anthony Bourdain: Junk, Romance, and a Lust for Life (REWIND)
DISGRACELAND
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4.6 • 13.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Anthony Bourdain had a lust for life. He went all in on adventure, indulgence, food, romance – including the romance of a heroin addiction that he chased through the restaurant kitchens and grimy rock clubs of 1980s Manhattan. For years he was a struggling cook and writer, but his first book, published when he was 43 years old, was an overnight success. He parlayed success as a writer into success as a TV host, traveling all over the world, dining with rockstars, presidents, and everyone in between. He dodged bullets, the real and the figurative kind, the figurative kind from the tabloids having the most impact. But in the end, he was unable to dodge the truth, which to a romantic like Anthony Bourdain, was hard to come to terms with.
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This episode was originally published on February 20, 2024.
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| 0:48.7 | Listen, to say that I'm excited to bring you this week's Rewind episode on Anthony Bourdain, it's an understatement. |
| 0:51.8 | Bordane is an outsized influence in my life, mainly his writing, |
| 0:57.0 | his books, his TV shows, you know, his rock and roll ethos, his aesthetic, all of it left |
| 1:04.0 | its mark on me. Anthony Bourdain wasn't a rock star, but as far as chefs and writers go, they don't make them more rock and roll than |
| 1:13.6 | Anthony Bourdain. So I just had to cover him for disgrace land. Anthony's life was fascinating, |
| 1:19.9 | his late in life success, his struggles with heroin, and his death was tragic and complicated. |
| 1:27.5 | All of that makes for incredible storytelling. |
| 1:31.3 | Now, this is more of a tribute than it is in Expoise, |
| 1:33.7 | but it's all very much disgrace land. |
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