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Anthony Bourdain
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Anthony Bourdain
Age: 61 †
Born: 1956
Born: June 25
Died: 2018
Died: June 8
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Italy is good in the sense that when you bring a child to a restaurant in Italy, they're happy to see it. The waiters will say complimenti and welcome you and dote after the kid. They don't treat you like you just brought in this horrible probably soon-to-be-squealing creature who's going to be difficult.
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And now to sleep, to dream...perchance to fart.
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I'm a decent cook I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.
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Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is.
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