My Bourdain Day

Just over a year ago the celebrity chef/traveler Anthony Bourdain died from suicide. Mass grief  and confusion ensued with tributes and memories of him flooding the airways, Internet, and social media.

Now, a year later, people are turning their grief around. Today, on what would have been his birthday, Anthony Bourdain is being celebrated with the first ever Bourdain Day -- a movement created by his friends, the chefs Eric Ripert and Jose Andres.

To celebrate Bourdain day, all you have to do is raise a glass of something, toast the man, and perhaps post something on social media -- like I will with this blog post ASAP.

Bourdain was a world traveler, an international celebrity, but he was a true-blue New Yorker who always brought the city with him wherever he went -- and brought the world back home with him. His love of food and culture enriched our lives, making us all fuller in both literal and spiritual meanings of the word. 

As a New Yorker, Bourdain had his favorite eating haunts has chronicled here. Also, you can read my tribute to the man here, about how I once met and did a small job for the man himself.

Anthony Bourdain will be forever remembered.