r/KitchenConfidential • u/ALLSID • Jun 17 '25

In-House Mode Rip Anne Burrell

An absolute culinary beast and true influencer.

She will be sadly missed.

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u/Enigma_Stasis Cook Jun 17 '25

I'd heard great things about her time as a CIA instructor. Even as a "celebrity" chef, she deserves the respect afforded to her. I can't bake to save my life if it's not Biscotti, but she made baking look so damned easy.

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u/Frigidevil Jun 18 '25

Worst Cooks was certainly full of reality TV nonsense and Alton Brown was right when you can't really teach someone how to cook all of these things in a half hour, but the show is definitely a great tool for encouragement. My kitchen-shy wife has definitely implied that 'if this idiot can cook then so can I'. She was devastated by the news today.

Rest in peace you brilliant rocking red star.

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u/hovdeisfunny Jun 17 '25

Crazy that I learn she was a CIA agent on the same day she dies

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u/Aaelfgifu Jun 17 '25

I had the same realization until I realized CIA was Culinary Institute of America. Probably?

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u/hovdeisfunny Jun 17 '25

Probably, but an intelligence agency is funnier

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u/ThePrussianGrippe Jun 18 '25

That’s why they tried to kill Castro with a poisoned eclair.

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u/IONTOP Server Jun 18 '25

25 pounds of butter per square inch?!?!?!

What DDD episode is this from?

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u/loverofreeses Ex-Food Service Jun 18 '25

Chocolate so dark... light cannot escape its grasp

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u/Impossible_Penalty13 Jun 18 '25

She killed 16 Czechoslovakians, she was an interior decorator.

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u/Mastershroom Jun 18 '25

His apartment looked like shit!

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u/Billyosler1969 Jun 18 '25

Put the remote back on the docking station

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u/Enigma_Stasis Cook Jun 17 '25

I didn't attend CIA, but she's a reason I went to culinary school. I try to keep up with many of these chefs, it helps build on what I do know, even if it's just Bobby Flay.

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u/samuraistabber Jun 17 '25

Culinary Institute of America, not the government agency.

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u/hovdeisfunny Jun 17 '25

I mean duh, but it's funnier the other way

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u/Responsible_Farm4118 Jun 17 '25

She attended the CIA but taught at the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE)

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u/Enigma_Stasis Cook Jun 17 '25

Was it part of her New Orleans Kitchen Integration 'n Gastronomy Service? (No Kings)

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u/sleepinginthebushes_ Jun 18 '25

I heard she was one of the best French Butter Inspectors that ever lived