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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought he seemed like a jerk and think it's weird how everyone got so into him after he killed himself. [/quote]

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Did you read his books and watch his shows? There is no way any thoughtful person could simply write him off as a jerk after having done so.

And the reason there is so much attention being paid to him now is because he had a massive impact on so many of us.  I have had imaginary conversations with him while cooking for years. His death, coming as it did on the heels of Kate Spade’s, was also enormously difficult for many people struggling with severe depression. I have a good friend who is a therapist who said many of her patients absolutely panicked when he died.  They were thinking that if someone like him, with all his talents, friends, and a daughter he adored, couldn’t find a reason to go on, what hope did they have? My friend said that all of her therapist friends reported similar. [/quote]

Wow.

He was terribly impatient with life. It was never enough.

He had an over curated life. The people who came into it were vetted in many ways, if only by the fact they were in remote places and didnt know or care who he was. He hated fame and being any sort of attraction himself (which is one of the curses of fame.) '

He showed up to the carcass of Les Halles in DC before he closed it and was so surly and pissed. He only wanted to go to the cool places, the parts unknown of DC. Literally anyone there was only there bc they were supposed to be for work (chef world) or bc they wanted to see him. The place was old and stinky needed a reno, food was terrible. It was a small crowd. Intimate. Easy to leave. We ordered shots with him and then ....? What? We sat down to think of an idea, drank shitty Beaujolais, forgot, left ourselves, in a happy mood, having had fun.

He despised the ordinary lives of ordinary people who paid his bills. Street food in Vietnam, sure. Office workers in DC, hell no. The people who were eating at his restaurants, watching his TV shows, posting  this adoring crap on a random dc website after his death....He hated this stuff. [/quote]

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