Anthony Bourdain’s Unknown Parts
7 min readJun 8, 2018
Coming to terms with his suicide—and what that says (or doesn’t) about how travel changes us.
Twelve minutes into the second episode of the first season of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, the Travel Channel series that transformed the chef turned writer into a bona fide TV star, our host gets caught in a blizzard. He’s in Iceland, and it’s January, when the windswept island, all rocks and snow, gets only…