Name: Anthony Bourdain

   Country: United States

   Language: English

   Biography: 
Anthony Bourdain was born in New York City in 1956. He studied at Vassar College and graduated from the Culinary Institute of America before running kitchens at New York City's Supper Club, One Fifth Avenue and Sullivan’s. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Times, the Observer, Scotland on Sunday, the Face, Limb by Limb, Black Book and the Independent, and he is a contributing authority for Food Arts magazine. He is currently the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles and lives in Manhattan. Bourdain’s latest project, a travel and food series called Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, airs on the Travel Channel. Bourdain had written two crime novels, Bone in the Throat (1995) and Gone Bamboo (1997), when his exposé of New York restaurants ‘Don’t Eat Before Reading This’ was published in The New Yorker in 1999. The article attracted huge attention in America and the UK and formed the basis of his memoir Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. In 2002, Food Network broadcast a 22-part series in which Bourdain travelled the world in search of ‘extreme cuisine’. The resulting book, A Cook’s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal, became a bestseller in the US and the UK, and won the 2002 Guild of Food Writers Award for Food Book of the Year. Published in October 2004, the Les Halles Cookbook is Anthony Bourdain’s guide to the strategies and techniques of classic bistro cooking. The book contains more than a hundred recipes from Brasserie Les Halles, all delivered in the ribald style of Kitchen Confidential and A Cook’s Tour.