ケンゾーミナミのインスタグラム(kenzominami) - 6月9日 05時48分

I was introduced to Anthony Bourdain’s work, because my oldest friend Michiko, whom I have known since we were 15 & 16 and went though all the adolescents and growing up together, and who eventually became kickass multilingual producer, worked with him on his first episode of first show as a producer/coordinator as well as was on the show as a guide to Japan. Their working relationship continued for many episodes and into A Cook’s Tour and No Reservation series. I saw him as a mentor to one of my closest friends, and followed their evolution of their show from the show about food and progressively turning into about something more, about human condition, and also saw their lives evolved over the course of decades. I was always so so proud and, with one of those timing that I encountered their work, I think it was one of those things which sort of helped me through at the time, even though I don’t want to make it all dramatic.

Now she lives in Kenya with her husband and kids, and we just have been talking to each other, hoping to reconnect and catch up in Tokyo if our timing meet. With time difference and depending on where she is now, I am not sure if she heard the news yet and I know I will be talking to her about it soon. It’s really breaking my heart as everybody else’s. And I sort of don’t know how to talk to her about it.

Also recently, in the midst of high stress, I for some reason started cooking. And I could see how healing it is. I was just fantasizing last week that, if I ever meet him, I would had liked to tell him that, you know, there is a chance that cooking (though I really can’t call it that yet) might had been one of the things which saved me when I look back on this period of my life retrospectively someday. And I hope it saved him too. My thoughts are not quite together and this is not really coherent, but rest In peace Mr. Bourdain. Thank you for looking after my friend for all those years. (P.S. - Here is the remembrance which literally, and I mean “literally”, begins with Michiko on Vanity Fair. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/08/remembering-anthony-bourdain-as-only-his-fixers-could)

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