Anthony Bourdain

There are already dozens of articles, and there will be dozens more, and they’ll all start with something like, “The food world was rocked,” and I don’t need to finish that sentence because you already know.

It’s such a very unfair paradox that often those who spend their lives performing this nourishing, caring service—feeding others—often do not have the means or the ability—or stability—to do the same for themselves.

Chefs die all the time, and no one talks about it. There are a million reasons for this, but the thing is that it happens constantly and it's only spoken of in hushed tones so no one gets upset. Other people's feelings are awkward, and we as a culture are exceptionally crappy at talking about them. We're all afraid of making things worse, or seeing someone in a different way, or having them see us in a vulnerable state. But as I see it, you either have to deal with the slightly uncomfortable situation of having your line cook cry in front of you, or you cry at their funeral.

I had never seen anybody actually walk into a room like a cowboy. A few months ago, I was sitting in an old school German restaurant in New York City with the sun pouring in at blinding angles. I was squinting from the light and physically pinching myself. I was waiting to interview Anthony Bourdain.

Anthony Bourdain — the acclaimed chef, storyteller and avid traveler who was known for exploring destinations off the beaten path — died Friday in an apparent suicide. He was 61.

Over the course of 2018 so far, Dark Horse Comics had published four issues of Hungry Ghosts, a new horror comics series helmed by Anthony Bourdain and novelist Joel Rose.

Two days before chef Eric Ripert found Anthony Bourdain unresponsive in his luxury hotel room in France, the close friends went for a ride in the countryside on a tandem bicycle.

Celebrity chef and television host Anthony Bourdain, who died in France at the age of 61, is being remembered for his advocacy and allyship in the #MeToo movement.

Bourdain openly discussed and criticized harassment and assault issues in the food industry — and Bourdain, as a man, took a hard look at his own past to question why women did not come to him to talk about such things.

Anthony Bourdain opened up about his “driven” nature in a PEOPLE interview in February, just months before his shocking death in an apparent suicide on Friday.

PEOPLE spent three days traveling with Bourdain as he filmed an episode of Parts Unknown, his hit CNN series, during which he shared that he had no desire to retire.

Tributes to Anthony Bourdain from cooking colleagues, celebrities who were on his show and longtime fans poured in Friday after he was found dead from an apparent suicide.

Bourdain, the 61-year-old food and travel aficionado won multiple awards for his culinary achievements, was found unresponsive in his hotel room in France, where he was filming an episode of the his CNN series Parts Unknown, the network confirmed in a statement.