Bourdain later said: > I’ve had to ask myself, and I have been for some time, “To what extent in that book did I provide validation to meatheads?” > …I mean,

Bourdain later said: > I’ve had to ask myself, and I have been for some time, “To what extent in that book did I provide validation to meatheads?” > …I mean, I became a leading figure in a very old, very oppressive system so I could hardly blame anyone for looking at me as somebody who’s not going to be particularly sympathetic. They say something to me about someone I know, and maybe I would tell them. > …And from the get-go, this system that I was, let’s be honest, celebrating and bragging about surviving, we’re talking about a militaristic, male system that goes back in Europe back to the guild system, generally populated in the classic example by abused male children who were abused in kitchens, worked their way up through this sadistic system of hazing, became chefs and then abused those below them in the same way. The traditional system was the male chef would abuse his male chef de cuisine. The male chef de cuisine would then abuse his sous-chef. The sous-chefs would take it out on all the cooks who would then physically hit, kick, torment, haze, and pressure each other as punishment for bringing this shit down on them yet again. And God help you if you were a woman in those days. —https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/10/anthony-bourdain-on-weinstein-john-besh-and-meathead-restaurant-culture.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/10/anthony-bourdain... And: > I’d put aside my psychotic rage, after many years being awful to line cooks, abusive to waiters, bullying to dishwashers. It’s terrible – and counter-productive – to make people feel idiots for working hard for you. Nowadays I still have a rather withering ability to be sarcastic and displeased but I’m not screaming at anyone. —https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jan/15/anthony-bourdain-life-on-a-plate-happy-as-a-dishwasher https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jan/15/anthony...