What it means "to bourdain"

I've been thinking lots about why Anthony Bourdain's death has touched me in ways that usually only the death of a friend does. Here's part of it: He was a philosopher of sorts -- and he changed the Western world in very real ways. To bourdain means to explore, to embrace differences, savor them, listen deeply, and offer respect, humor, and a joy of exploration, appetites, and humanity. I'm adding this verb to my personal dictionary and invite you to do the same. When I travel this summer to places I have not been, I plan on bourdaining as I go.

Today's Quote of the Day from the NYTimes: Shivana Sookdeo, an illustrator and artist, reflects on Anthony Bourdain:

“He spent the ten minutes listening to me talk about the home country of my parents, Trinidad & Tobago, with the utmost engagement. Like an ambassador studying up, ready to go.”“He did, ultimately. My whole family watched it. Practically the whole island did. It was like the president visiting your home country. We all watched as Tony Bourdain spoke of the island as if he'd fallen in love with it. I hope he did.”“I think many of us trusted him to do that, to fall in love with the places we came from and to understand why we lived there or why we left there. We trusted him to see us as people first. Not curiosities.”“Sometimes I like to pretend that my ten minutes convinced him to visit. But that was his charm, really, that he met passion with passion. That he understood the complexity of people just as well as he understood the complexity of food.” (From the New York Times' "The Interpreter")