Chef, author, and raconteur Anthony Bourdain is best known for traveling the globe on his TV show
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown. Somewhat notoriously, he has established himself as a professional gadfly, bête noir, advocate, social critic, and pork enthusiast, recognized for his caustic sense of humor worldwide. He is as unsparing of those things he hates, as he is evangelical about his passions.
Bourdain is the author of the
New York Times bestselling
Kitchen Confidential and
Medium Raw;
A Cook's Tour; the collection
The Nasty Bits; the novels
Bone in the
Throat and
Gone Bamboo; the biography
Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical; two graphic novels,
Get Jiro! and
Get Jiro!: Blood and Sushi and his latest
New York Times bestselling cookbook
Appetites. He has written for
The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Times of London, Bon Appetit, Gourmet, Vanity Fair, Lucky Peach and many other publications. In 2013, Bourdain launched his own publishing line with Ecco, Anthony Bourdain Books, an imprint of HarperCollins. He is the host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning docuseries Anthony Bourdain:
Parts Unknown on CNN, and before that hosted Emmy award-winning
No Reservations and
The Layover on Travel Channel, and
The Taste on ABC.