{"id":263981,"date":"2018-12-21T08:42:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T15:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/chef-who-found-anthony-bourdain-dead-remembers-his-loyal-friend\/"},"modified":"2018-12-21T08:42:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T15:42:32","slug":"chef-who-found-anthony-bourdain-dead-remembers-his-loyal-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/chef-who-found-anthony-bourdain-dead-remembers-his-loyal-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Chef Who Found Anthony Bourdain Dead Remembers His &#8220;Loyal&#8221; Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"42.631578947368\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201858\/rs_634x1024-180608091951-634-Anthony-Bourdain-Eric-Ripert-JR-060818.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Anthony Bourdain, Eric Ripert\" alt=\"Anthony Bourdain, Eric Ripert\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Robin Marchant\/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"26.4375\">\n<p>As the year comes to a close,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/anthony_bourdain\">Anthony Bourdain<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s memory lives on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The beloved chef and TV personality <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/942453\/anthony-bourdain-dies-of-suicide-at-age-61\" target=\"_blank\">committed suicide in June<\/a>, sending shockwaves through his many fans and friends around the world. Among them was fellow revered chef <strong>\u00c9ric Ripert<\/strong>, who found Bourdain unresponsive in his hotel room in France, where the <em>Parts Unknown<\/em> host had\u00a0been working on an upcoming episode.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Bourdain is no longer with us, Ripert&#8217;s memory of him remains crystal clear. &#8220;Anthony was a very loyal friend, very noble, very generous with his fans,&#8221; he told\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/hoda_kotb\">Hoda Kotb<\/a><\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Craig Melvin<\/strong> on\u00a0<em>Today<\/em> Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have never seen someone so generous and spending so much time with them, signing books, taking pictures everywhere in the street or when he was doing book signings, you would see a line with a thousand people and until the last one, he would stay there,&#8221; the\u00a0Le Bernardin chef remembered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"11\">\n<p>Of course, anyone who knew Bourdain can&#8217;t talk about him with acknowledging the impact he made on viewers through his travel shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was very curious. We were with him on television. He was taking us on his trips,&#8221; Ripert pointed out. &#8220;His curiosity was contagious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the chef poignantly concluded, &#8220;We traveled the world with Anthony.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6\">\n<p>His work on the show was posthumously honored this year with two <strong>2018 Emmy Awards<\/strong>\u2014one for Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming and another for Outstanding Informational Series or Special.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(E! and NBC are both part of the NBCUniversal family.)<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">If you or someone you know needs help, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/998691\/chef-who-found-anthony-bourdain-dead-remembers-his-loyal-friend?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robin Marchant\/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival As the year comes to a close,\u00a0Anthony Bourdain&#8216;s memory lives on.\u00a0 The beloved chef and TV personality committed suicide in June, sending shockwaves through his many fans and friends around the world. Among them was fellow revered chef \u00c9ric Ripert, who found Bourdain unresponsive in his hotel room [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-263981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 15:56:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}