Anthony Bourdain’s Unknown Parts

Matt Gross
7 min readJun 8, 2018

Coming to terms with his suicide—and what that says (or doesn’t) about how travel changes us.

A happy ending for “Hello Darkness My Old Friend,” an early episode of “No Reservations.”

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…

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Matt Gross

Restless & hungry. Writing about travel, food, parenting, and culture all over the place.