On this episode of StarTalk, we have a one-on-one interview between me and chef and TV host, Anthony Bourdain.

I had the privilege of sitting down with Anthony before his untimely death in 2018 to talk about Antarctica,

food, culture, and so much more. You can hear pieces of this conversation in a different episode from our archives,

but never before had we released that conversation in its entirety.

Until now, check it out.

Welcome to StarTalk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.

StarTalk begins right now.

So Anthony, thanks for coming back to StarTalk.

You were one of our earliest guests like five years ago.

Yes.

Thanks for helping us out back then.

Happy to do it.

So tell me how you came to think about food and culture.

Most people think of food as simply sustenance.

And we don't even spend any, generally, any thought at all that what we're eating is a function of our own culture.

It's just the food that's on the table.

And so for you to rise up above that, see the world and say, this food is that culture, that food is that culture.

When did that begin?

I think that was a process.

I mean, I started out making a show about food in places around the world, but it was essentially

one scene after another of me shoving food in my face.

I guess it became fairly quickly apparent that food was intensely personal,

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