Blogs Village Voice Forkintheroad 2012 Olive Garden Review Marilyn Hegarty
Viral Food Critic Who Anthony Bourdain Dedicated Against Online Trolls Remembers 'Positive' Chef
"He was a person who was very pleasant to talk to. I can't imagine him taking his own life," nutrient writer Marilyn Hagerty tells PEOPLE
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"I went viral because at that place were hundreds and hundreds of comments later the column I wrote about the Olive Garden coming to Grand Forks. I was overwhelmed with the attention I was getting," Hagerty, who is now in her 90s, tells PEOPLE.
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Subsequently being sent to New York, where the nutrient columnist appeared on Today and Anderson Cooper 360, she had a meeting with Bourdain, who had previously defended her against online trolls, praising her "triumph over the snarkologists (myself included)." He after wrote that "Marilyn Hagerty's years of reviews" represented "a history of dining" that "besides few of us from the coasts have seen."
"I think he wanted to know how kooky I was," Hagerty explains.
Recalling their meeting, the nutrient writer says they met for coffee at a hotel, and after spending an hour or two together, "he decided he wanted to publish a volume of my reviews."
"I thought he was a very handsome [human being]. He [was] very nicely dressed and just very easy to sit with," she shares with PEOPLE. "He was a very pleasant person to be with."
"He said at first he thought it was simply weird that I would write about the Olive Garden coming to Yard Forks, but then he said the more he idea about it he believed I was telling the story of how people eat in this area of the country, in the Midwest, in the small towns and what foods are important or interesting to them," she explained, adding that Bourdain "knew that I had been writing this cavalcade for ten to 20 years."
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Marilyn Hagerty and Anthony Bourdain
"Nosotros talked near everything," she continues, describing their chat about Bourdain's girl Ariane, at present 11, who had simply celebrated her 5th altogether.
"He had a political party for her and she didn't have a adept time, and that was because he had invited adults and she didn't enjoy that. So he planned another political party for the next Saturday and he was going to invite kids," she remarks.
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Anthony Bourdain and Ariane
"It was something very great that happened to me considering I had the chance to meet Anthony Bourdain," Hagerty explains.
In the book's introduction, Bourdain praised Hagerty for her "flinty, dry, very sharp sense of humor," calculation that "she misses nothing" and he "would not want to play poker with her for coin."
"This is a straightforward account of what people have been eating — still ARE eating — in much of America. Every bit related by a kind, adept-hearted reporter looking to pass along as much useful data as she tin can — while pain no ane," he continued, adding, "this volume kills snark dead."
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As part of the New York visit, Hagerty says Bourdain arranged for her to dine at Le Bernardin, which is owned by French chef Eric Ripert.
Ripert, a close friend of Bourdain, establish the late chef and TV host unresponsive in his hotel room in French republic on Friday, CNN told PEOPLE. Both were filming an upcoming episode of Bourdain's CNN series Parts Unknown.
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Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert
Describing their dinner together, Hagerty recalls "it was a wonderful evening."
"I recollect we went there about 6 p.g. and nosotros were there until afterward xi p.m. We had six or 7 different courses," continues the food writer. "And nosotros had a sommelier there to describe each vino. I was able to go back in the kitchen and talk to people. Information technology was a mind-boggling feel to me."
Hagerty adds that she extended an invitation to Bourdain "to come to North Dakota to have lutefisk and lefsa, our local Norwegian specialties."
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Anthony Bourdain
Of grade, Hagerty says she "was very sad" to hear most Bourdain's death.
"I was very sad. My contact with Anthony Bourdain was e'er so positive," she says.
"He was more on the humorous side. He would talk and laugh nigh things. He wasn't down and out or he didn't seem to accept set, staid opinions. He was a person who was very pleasant to talk to. I tin't imagine him taking his own life," she adds.
Speaking with PEOPLE, French prosecutor Christian de Rocquigny previously said there was no evidence of violence in Bourdain'due south death.
"Nothing suggested the interest of a third person," Rocquigny continued, adding that "an dissection is the priority" equally police in Colmar, France, go along investigating the chef and TV host'southward death.
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