Anthony Bourdain takes a sad walk down memory lane in final 'Parts Unknown'
On the final Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Bourdain traveled to New York’s lower east side. Though much of the episode was focused on the music and art in the area in the 1970s and ’80s, some of the most interesting parts were when Bourdain, who was found dead in June of an apparent suicide, took us on a very strange trip down memory lane. Bourdain has talked openly about his past drug use, and admitted on the show that the only reason he ever went to the lower east side was for the music and for heroin. The show opened with Bourdain talking about various “dope houses” in the area, and later he visited with a man who kept a scrapbook of old baggies with various names of whatever heroin was in them like DOA, Poison, and Toilet. “You know you were doing something bad when you bought a product called “Toilet” and, you know, shoot it in your arm,” Bourdain said. Since this was the final episode, fans took to twitter to say their goodbyes.
My heart breaks once again. The final episode of @PartsUnknownCNN w/ @Bourdain airs tonight. Farewell to our navigator on a spiritual & gastronomic journey around the globe. Thank you Anthony for opening the unknown parts of world to us & making it feel less scary. #PartsUnknown
— Darrell Dass (@DarrellDass) November 12, 2018
Hard to say goodbye to Anthony @Bourdain twice. #PartsUnknown #FinalEpisode @CNN pic.twitter.com/dav28jvVcn
— Lisa Goich (@LisaGoich) November 12, 2018
And while Bourdain spent so much of his time on Parts Unknown traveling the globe eating exotic foods, his final moments on the show were in a New York apartment eating a plain hard boiled egg.