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What’s on the menu for #Weinstein @AsiaArgento pic.twitter.com/JghdzkqDgv

— Anthony Bourdain (@Bourdain) May 25, 2018

Rethinking his best-seller, \"Kitchen Confidential\"

Bourdain also said that the accusations against Weinstein prompted him to reflect on whether he had unintentionally in his breakthrough memoir, \"Kitchen Confidential,\" promoted a male-centered culture in the restaurant business.

\"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?'” Bourdain said to Slate, admitting that he played the role of \"the bad boy.\"

\"You know, to the extent that I was that guy, however fast and however hard I tried to get away [from] it, the fact is that’s what my persona was,\" Bourdain said. \"I am a guy on TV who sexualizes food. Who uses bad language. Who thinks our discomfort, our squeamishness, fear and discomfort around matters sexual is funny. I have done stupid offensive s***.\"

It’s Batali. And it’s bad .

— Anthony Bourdain (@Bourdain) December 11, 2017

Responding to sexual misconduct allegations in the food world

In a December essay posted on Medium, Bourdain addressed the accusations of sexual harassment or misconduct against food industry colleague Mario Batali and restaurateur Ken Friedman.

\"In these current circumstances, one must pick a side,\" Bourdain wrote. \"I stand unhesitatingly and unwaveringly with the women.\"

He went on: \"I am grateful to them for their courage, and inspired by them. That doesn’t make me any more enlightened than any other man who has begun listening and paying attention. It does makes me, I hope, slightly less stupid.\"

Bourdain concluded the piece by again addressing \"Kitchen Confidential,\" writing that he felt remorse over the book in which \"prolonged a culture that allowed the kind of grotesque behaviors.\"

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— Asia Argento (@AsiaArgento) June 8, 2018

Proud to know you @AsiaArgento
And to bask in your reflected glory https://t.co/uVBYAxNsHg

— Anthony Bourdain (@Bourdain) March 2, 2018

..@rosemcgowan Force of Nature. Listen! #Brave

— Anthony Bourdain (@Bourdain) February 1, 2018

Applauding females and the #MeToo movement

Months before his death, Bourdain in an appearance on \"The Daily Show\" with Trevor Noah credited Argento and other women whose #MeToo accounts had him speaking \"out of a sense of real rage.\"

“I’d like to say [that] I was only enlightened in some way or I’m an activist or virtuous, but in fact, I have to be honest with myself,\" Bourdain explained. \"I met one extraordinary woman with an extraordinary and painful story, who introduced me to a lot of other women with extraordinary stories and suddenly it was personal.”

I ain’t “woke”. I was lucky enough to meet one, truly extraordinary woman @AsiaArgento pic.twitter.com/XgpVYyrsxN

— Anthony Bourdain (@Bourdain) December 12, 2017

It was an honor to cook for this meeting of the minds @AsiaArgento @rosemcgowan @AnnabellSciorra pic.twitter.com/5UoOl1Xhux

— Anthony Bourdain (@Bourdain) November 25, 2017

Bourdain was also openly supportive of #MeToo on social media.

In January, he tweeted to Rose McGowan and applauded her for revealing her allegations against Weinstein.

Through space and time, Anthony. Your love will find you again. pic.twitter.com/XBod1vDZ8k

— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) June 8, 2018

Anthony was a major MeToo supporter. He strongly defended our rights; he spoke up publicly for us. He was that vital male partner. I am humbled and forever grateful that one of his last major projects was believing in and becoming EP of my recent CNN series on the lives of women.

— Christiane Amanpour (@camanpour) June 8, 2018

\"In a world of timidity, compromise and b*******, @rosemcgowan howls fearlessly at the moon #Brave,\" Bourdain wrote.

In wake of Bourdain's death, McGowan tweeted, \"Through space and time, Anthony. Your love will find you again.\"

Anyone in crisis, or who knows someone in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741-741.

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