Who was Anthony Bourdain?

Anthony Michael Bourdain Bourdain (June 25, 1956 – June 8, 2018) was an American celebrity chef, author, and a travel documentarian, who starred in programs focusing on the exploration of international culture, cuisine, and the human condition. Bourdain was a 1978 graduate of The Culinary Institute of America and a veteran of a number of professional kitchens during his career, which included many years spent as an executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in Manhattan. He first became known for his bestselling book "Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly" (2000).

Bourdain was known for consuming exotic local specialty dishes, having eaten black-colored blood sausages called mustamakkara in Finland and also "sheep testicles in Morocco, ant eggs in Puebla, Mexico, a raw seal eyeball as part of a traditional Inuit seal hunt, and an entire cobra—beating heart, blood, bile, and meat—in Vietnam".

Bourdain's first food and world-travel television show "A Cook's Tour" ran for 35 episodes on the Food Network in 2002 and 2003. In 2005, he began hosting the Travel Channel's culinary and cultural adventure programs "Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations" (2005–2012) and "The Layover" (2011–2013).

On June 8, 2018, Bourdain died by suicide via hanging himself while on location in France filming his new show "Parts Unknown".