Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain (1956 to 2018) was an American chef, author and travel documentarian who changed how a generation thought about food, work and travel. He spent years in New York kitchens before Kitchen Confidential, his profane, exhilarating 2000 memoir of the restaurant world, made him famous overnight. He turned that voice to the road in the television series A Cook’s Tour, No Reservations and Parts Unknown, using food as a way into other people’s lives. He wrote fiction, cookbooks and essays throughout, always as a curious, well-read outsider.