“Tony,” the new film about Anthony Bourdain, dramatizes the late chef’s youth and ends decades before Bourdain would log many of the accomplishments for which he is known: his best-selling culinary tell-all, “Kitchen Confidential”; his shows on the Food Network, the Travel Channel, and CNN. In 2017, the New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe tackled all that, in a Profile of Bourdain, who, by then, had travelled to nearly 100 countries and filmed 200 episodes of television. Keefe drinks soju with his subject in New York, and accompanies him to Vietnam to film an episode of “Parts Unknown” with former President Barack Obama.
Unbeknownst to Keefe, he was capturing a portrait of the chef near the end of his life. A little more than a year later, Bourdain was dead, at 61. On the page, however, he remains as vivid as ever. Read the Profile: https://t.co/BQGxqLOiga