R.I.P. Anthony Bourdain

So tragic! I remember reading Kitchen Confidential and not being a big fan of him

Then saw Parts Unknown a few times and found a new respect for his point of view. He was more a student of the world than journalist, and seemed to make deeper connections with people.

Very, very sad.

 
A lot of it has to do with the drugs they are prescribed by their doctors. There are many side

effects, one being thoughts of suicide. A friend of mine who is a home maker, lovely lady who only wants to take care of her home and family went through a tough situation for a period of time. Her family doctor prescribed Prozac (is that even legal by a family doctor?) and in a short period of time she had suicidal thoughts. She immediately went back to her doctor to find out how to safely get off the drug. She was very frightened by this.
I always enjoyed Anthony, after reading his books, I understood him better. Wonder what the final straw was for him...

 
Have they declared suicide? The last sources I looked at...

did not say cause of death and suicide was only speculated.

I toasted Mr. Bourdain last month during my trip to NYC when I finally made it to the Heidelberg on the Upper East Side. He just went off on this place.

And I finally had real German food in an American German restaurant. This had never happened before in all my travels (an I am casting evil eyes at you Fredericksburg, Texas and your foul excuses of German cuisine--hey let's douse it in vinegar!!! That's German!!!).

We toasted Anthony Bourdain with our liter steins of beer for guiding us to this place. And what a line-up of German beers they have on draught!!!

I searched for the video of his show at the Heidelberg, there was even a link on their web site to it, and it is now gone!!!, and I cannot find it anywhere.

Anyway, if you want to visit Munich for a few hours while visiting Gotham City, go the Heidelberg. It may have been formerly a Palatinate-Baden (the German country where Heidelberg was located in those days) restaurant when it opened in 1909, but it is now a full-blown 19th Century Kingdom of Bavaria (the old titles before the German Empire was formed) restaurant.

Go visit before they are gone. Glaser's, the last of the three German shops left in the old Manhattan German town where the Heidelberg is located closed on June 1. So sad.

And do order the Full-Bavarian Schweinshax'n with a liter of one of their amazing beers on draught. Authentic.

http://www.heidelberg-nyc.com/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BhaHwXIFu6z/

 
Whoa, whoa, whoa. For many people with clinical depression, chemical help is a godsend.

We're talking about brain chemistry here, re: depression. You can't fight it solely with cognitive behavior therapy, in most cases.

To keep this food-related: having been on Prozac and Wellbutrin for major depression (thank you, grad school), I zoomed back to life in a matter of weeks. I could taste, see, and hear things. And function.

 
Yes, better living through chemistry. Dealing with depression is not easy, no matter

which treatment path one decides to travel. It is difficult, no matter what.

Hugs to you, Erin. smileys/smile.gif

 
I was referring to the NEED; that, to me is what is saddening. Not how or if it is treated. I know

chemicals can be necessary and am thankful that psychopharmacology has brought friends back from an abyss. I just wish the need were not there. It seems that so many people are not coping these days.

The world is getting tough to deal with.

 
I think there is also less stigma attached to mental illness, so more folks

Who struggle with it are willing to share their experiences, and more people are willing to seek assistance in dealing with it.

 
The French toxicology report is still due, which should shed some light...

The authorities in Colmar, the town in Alsace where they were filming. said only that there was no evidence of a third party involved, no evidence of forced entry, etc.

 
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