“His addiction was always odd to me,” says one-time kitchen colleague Robert Vuolo. Others tackle the mystique around Bourdain’s junkie days. Scott Bryan, an NYC chef who came up around the same time as Bourdain, says that “Tony saw himself as more of a writer than a chef.” He tended to take higher paying jobs at random restaurants rather than opting to earn his stripes at serious fine-dining establishments, something Bourdain himself admitted to in “Kitchen Confidential.” “He never went through the rigours that I did. “For a long time, Tony had his life run by women.” Picture: Getty I think that’s a big reason he’s done so well,” Nancy says of the incident. “For a long time, Tony had his life run by women. Gladys was a copyeditor who worked at the New York Times and even went so far as to call her son’s publisher behind his back to make corrections to one of his cookbooks. “ that he kind of sprang fully formed at the age of 44, as this brilliant writer just, you know, it’s a wonderful myth,” Woolever said. He had previously published two novels, taken a class with editor Gordon Lish, and he was meeting with Robert De Niro’s production company on scripts. While that book was certainly a smash, Bourdain had always wanted to be a writer.
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In fact, a key myth about Bourdain that the book dispels is that he went from being a humble chef to a hugely successful writer and TV personality overnight, with the publication of Kitchen Confidential in 2000. “Tony always had a fabulous vocabulary, and he read early,” she says. His mom, Gladys, recalls how Tony showed a talent with words very early on. Only after she died in 2020 did he realise his parents’ wedding photo was in front of a synagogue. Details of her Jewish faith were “buried completely,” he says. Unlike the recent film, which starts at the point Bourdain publishes his memoir Kitchen Confidential and rockets to stardom, the book begins in his childhood.īrother Christopher notes that they didn’t know their mother was Jewish until they were in high school. “He became this great cultural anthropologist whom everyone so loved, but, fundamentally, he was like a teenage boy with his emotional development.” “He was emotionally immature,” says longtime producer Lydia Tenaglia. “It was almost adolescent … He was profoundly, darkly vulnerable.”Įarly in the book, brother Christopher even recalls Bourdain seeing prostitutes after the dissolution of his first marriage.īourdain (left) was beloved by millions for his adventurous TV cooking shows. When he and Ottavia were first dating, Buford recalls Bourdain being overly eager for since-disgraced chef Mario Batali to “see” his new girlfriend. He alleges that Nancy was almost like his mother. “He had a very nervous relationship with women,” writer Bill Buford says. Others note that Bourdain’s romantic dealings with women had always been fraught. I stopped watching the shows toward the end, because I could not really recognise him.” “He was much darker in the last year or so of his life. His second wife, Ottavia Busia-Bourdain, expresses similar thoughts. “He looked like he was being ridden hard and put away wet … he seemed to not care about being tan anymore.” “I didn’t like the way he looked in the last couple of years,” says Nancy. While Woolever served as a producer on “Roadrunner” and her book features several of the same interview subjects, there are several who did not participate in the film, most notably his daughter Ariane and high school sweetheart and first wife, Nancy Bourdain. “He would play hooky … and tan aggressively. “He would tan, I think largely to hide the pallor of heroin,” recalls James Graham, who worked with Bourdain in various New York kitchens. “I remember his joking that he would be competing in the George Hamilton Tanning Olympics,” brother Christopher Bourdain told her. Bourdain, seen here with partner Asia Argento, had a “strange” obsession with tanning.
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