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Although you may have eaten at one of Anthony Bourdain’s restaurants in New York, Washington, or Miami, most people know this chef-adventurer from the Travel Channel’s “No Reservations.”  Using and abusing his body in strange locales around the world, Bourdain pushes the limits of consumption by eating everything from sheep testicles to entire snakes to warthog rectums. His celebrity travel status has somewhat diminished his culinary reputation, but he continues to remain an exceptionally talented chef in his own right.

So What Really Makes Anthony Bourdain Unique?

Besides his eating habits?  Well Bourdain has helped spread eating customs with a speed that shames even the Golden Arches. And his ribald, unparalleled writing style has helped make the culinary arts infinitely more accessible to the masses. What was once the sole purview of portly grandmothers and high-brow French chefs is now available to everyone. Bourdain has done for food and fine dining what Happy Gilmore did for golf.

The Irony that Is Anthony Bourdain

Despite his initial disdain for celebrity chefs, Bourdain has emerged as something of a celebrity chef himself. His wildly successful books and TV series have helped thrust him into the spotlight more than he ever could have imagined. As such, he has had to cool some of his rhetoric from the early days, but his zany approach to food and travel have remained largely unchanged in his long and illustrious career. And thanks to his adventurous spirit and apparently iron stomach, the rest of us can live vicariously through his unusual snacking habits.

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