Tag: Anthony Bourdain



One Time, Never Again

Ichi-go Ichi-e: One Time, One Meeting, Never Again

If there’s one thing I should be doing more, which is to write a lot more on this blog. There are times when I find myself thinking that by not cranking out more material, I’m wasting my days on this earth. Perhaps that’s not a healthy thing to think about, but it does make me feel bad sometimes. This post is a musing on the unpredictability of the future and how we must all make the most of our time on this earth. However, writing for me is a lone endeavor — no one tells me to write other than myself. Perhaps I should spend more time with other people. (more…)

My Top 3 Episodes of Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown

Anthony Bourdain in Parts Unknown

With the passing of Anthony Bourdain last month, I thought I had to write a bit about how his work has influenced my view on “exploring experience”, as this blog’s tagline states. I want to focus on the memories he left behind with the travels he embarked on for his show Parts Unknown — a program I quite liked for how it packaged food and travel as a way to better understand the world and its people. (more…)