{"id":52973,"date":"2020-01-16T09:22:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T15:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=52973"},"modified":"2020-01-16T09:22:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T15:22:58","slug":"gladys-bourdain-who-helped-launch-her-chef-sons-celebrated-career-dies-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/gladys-bourdain-who-helped-launch-her-chef-sons-celebrated-career-dies-at-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Gladys Bourdain, who helped launch her chef son\u2019s celebrated career, dies at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 Gladys Bourdain, who convinced an editor to publish the first article written by her chef son Anthony, has died.<\/p>\n<p>Bourdain died in hospice on Friday in the Bronx, New York. She was 85.<\/p>\n<p>She worked for nearly 25 years as a copy editor at the New York Times beginning in 1984, \u201cdeveloping a reputation as a strict grammarian on the culture and metropolitan desks,\u201d according to an obituary in that newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Bourdain wrote an expose on life in the restaurant business but had trouble getting it published. His mom tried to help.<\/p>\n<p>According to former Times reporter Esther Fein, Bourdain gave his mother a copy of the article and asked her to pass it on to her husband, David Remnick, then the new editor of The New Yorker. In doing so, she called herself a \u201cpushy mom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Remnick published the article, which led to a book deal shortly after.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Bourdain, who hosted popular food and travel shows on CNN, committed suicide in 2018. His mother memorialized him with a tattoo of his name on her wrist.<\/p>\n<p>Gladys Bourdain worked for TV Guide, The Record of Bergen County, New Jersey, and Agence France-Presse before joining The Times.<\/p>\n<p>She is survived by a son, Christopher, and three grandchildren.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Gladys%20Bourdain%2C%20who%20helped%20launch%20her%20chef%20son%E2%80%99s%20celebrated%20career%2C%20dies%20at%2085\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7138],"tags":[10457,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52976,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52973\/revisions\/52976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}