Remembering Anthony: “A Seat at the Table with Anthony Bourdain Parts 1 & 2”

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🗓️ 10 June 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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To celebrate the life of Anthony Bourdain, Neil deGrasse Tyson is revisiting his two-part interview with him from 2013, as a single, commercial-free episode with new thoughts and recollections by Neil. Featuring comic co-host Eugene Mirman and NYU Professor of Nutrition Marion Nestle. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/remembering-anthony-a-seat-at-the-table-with-anthony-bourdain-parts-1-2/ Photo Credit: Brandon Royal.

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0:00.0	Start Talk Radio first interviewed Anthony Bourdain back in 2013 and a show we called A Seat at the
0:08.6	Table with Anthony Bourdain. It was my first time meeting him and I was a struck at the time and
0:15.5	ever since by his humble beginnings and what they had turned into, what he had made for himself
0:25.1	over the years, having begun early on as a dishwasher in a restaurant and he speaks
0:33.1	candidly about these beginnings as early drug addictions. I had not at the time yet read his memoir
0:39.5	on this subject but he was been quite candid about it his whole life and to realize that in America
0:47.1	you can overcome such curveballs, you can overcome such obstacles and still make a life for yourself,
0:57.9	a brilliant life for yourself, not only for yourself but for others. So many people were touched
1:03.3	by him, by his personality, by his honesty, his authenticity that is apparent in every sentence
1:13.7	that he utters. I think what will miss most about Anthony Bourdain is how much he reminded us or
1:21.1	alerted us for the first time if we never knew how important food is for bringing us together.
1:29.4	Think about it. Often the food of another culture is your first encounter with that culture before
1:36.8	you even meet a person who represents that food. You eat their food. This isn't intriguing.
1:43.8	Oh, this is odd. I wonder why they did it this way or what accounts for this tradition or this habit.
1:49.2	And Anthony Bourdain wasn't simply a celebrity chef. Yes, he was that but he was also someone
1:57.6	who reminded us how small the world is or how small the world needs to be.
2:04.2	For Anthony Bourdain, your seat at the table wasn't just a place to share food. It was a place to
2:14.0	share culture, a place to experience people and places and things that are different from us
2:21.6	but in a completely unresting way, in a completely calm and honest
2:32.8	and embracing way, no matter how different their food is from your expectations or your desires.
2:40.3	So I present for you StarTalk Radio's 2013 interview with Anthony Bourdain.
2:52.4	Welcome to StarTalk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
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