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Anthony Bourdain Used to Mock Anderson Cooper's Eating Habits
"Everything I thought about food was completely antithetical to his beliefs.”
Anderson Cooper and Anthony Bourdain became friends after meeting through CNN a decade ago, but their friendship wasn't limited to being colleagues -- the pair had a true friendship that Cooper has opened up about since Bourdain's death. Like most friends, they did their fair share of arguing, and it was Cooper's ambivalence to Bourdain's passion -- food --that really set off the departed culinary adventurer.
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"I don't care about food," Cooper told THR, adding that he'd consume nothing but meal-replacement Soylent if it was up to him. "So I'm trying to replace all food with this because it would be, like, three fewer decisions in a day." This ambivalence toward cuisine infuriated Bourdain. "[He] and I used to have lunch together, and he'd look at me like I was a creature from a different planet. Everything I thought about food was completely antithetical to his beliefs."
While they may have felt very differently about food, the pair had a true friendship. Shortly after Bourdain's death, Cooper said that Bourdain gave him hope and "he loved and was loved in return."
