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Anthony Bourdain

In 1999, Anthony Bourdain was chefing at Brasserie Les Halles in New York City when The New Yorker published his edgy article, Don’t Eat Before Reading This, about the seamier side of New York’s restaurant kitchens, to incredible reviews. A full-length book, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, soon followed, and his life hasn’t been the same since.

Within a couple of years, Bourdain made his TV debut on the Food Network with A Cook’s Tour, a 22-episode series featuring Bourdain circling the globe and feeding his adventure eating (and drinking) habit with the most extreme cuisine the world had to offer. His current award-winning show, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, is now in its seventh season on the Travel Channel.
He is the author of ten books, including food/travel essays, mystery novels, a cookbook and and “urban historical” on Typhoid Mary.

His writings have been published in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Maxim, Observer, and the Face. He is an ongoing contributor and authority for Food Arts magazine and an occasional guest on Top Chef. His blog for the reality competition show Top Chef was nominated for a Webby Award in 2008. The powerful Haiti episode of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, which was filmed after the 2010 earthquake, has been nominated for three Emmy Awards this year, plus a forth for the overall series.

Born in 1956, attended Vassar College and graduated from the world-renowned Culinary Institute of America in 1978. For the next 20 years, he worked in, and then began running, kitchens in New York restaurants such as Supper Club, One Fifth Avenue, and Sullivan’s. He remains Honorary Chef-at-Large for Brasserie Les Halles.

Bourdain and his wife Ottavia live in New York with their four-year-old daughter Ariane.