The book is already setting off a wave of controversy among Bourdain’s huge fanbase, as well as his friends and relatives, who claim that journalist Charles Leerhsen’s account of Bourdain’s life is a slur on his memory. By the time he realized that, he was too physically exhausted to straighten things out Charles Leerhsenīourdain’s charismatic approach to cooking and to life, and his spiral down, will be revived four years after his death on publication next week of Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain. Yet 17 years later, Bourdain met his end in a provincial hotel in Kaysersberg, France, killing himself at the tail end of doomed relationship with Asia Argento, the actor and daughter of an Italian horror film director. He produced three seasons of globe-trotting food adventure, a run that made him a global star. His notoriety was soon to soar: he refashioned the job of the celebrity chef, puncturing the self-importance of the species he infused the job with sex appeal and with intensity.
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