Herself a food writer, Gladys Bourdain famously introduced her son’s writing to New Yorker editor-in-chief David Remnick
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly.
If his insider’s account of the louche restaurant industry ever made his mother blush, it was told in writing that made her undoubtedly proud: The younger Bourdain would go on to change the way we talk about food and approach eating.
Gladys Bourdain, who had also encouraged her son to attend culinary school, was raised in the Bronx and attended what’s now Lehman College before pursuing her career in publishing and marrying Pierre Bourdain ., Gladys recalled her son, who was heavily tattooed, with a fitting tribute: “Ms. Bourdain memorialized her son with a tattoo of his name on her wrist — her first and only tattoo.”
I sat near Gladys for several years on the Metro Copy Desk, and she always made sure we ordered good takeout.
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