David Simon pens affecting accolade to 'Treme' assistant Anthony Bourdain
A few canicule afterwards the chef and TV personality died at the age of 61 by suicide, Simon, the abounding TV biographer abaft The Wire and The Deuce, aggregate a affecting accolade to Bourdain. In the column on Simon’s website, he remembers cold-calling Bourdain not continued afterwards that bewitched 10 hours on the couch, application his afresh ordered HBO alternation Treme as an alibi to ask the Bourdain to banquet to aces his academician on a adventure band revolving about Kim Dickens’ character, a chef disturbing to reopen her restaurant in New Orleans afterwards Hurricane Katrina. Once Treme became a reality, Bourdain came aboard as a adviser and biographer with Simon praising the chef’s “perfectly” accounting scenes. Simon again batten of “The Church of Bourdain,” the acceptance that Americans would all be bigger served by traveling the apple and administration a meal with humans who are altered than them.