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Anthony Michael Bourdain (/bɔːrˈdeɪn/; June 25, 1956 – June 8, 2018) was an American celebrity chef, author, journalist, and travel documentarian who starred in programs focusing on the exploration of international culture, cuisine, and the human condition. Bourdain was a 1978 graduate of The Culinary Institute of America and a veteran of a number of professional kitchens in his long career, which included many years spent as an executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in Manhattan. He first became known for his bestselling book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (2000).
His first food and world-travel television show A Cooks Tour ran for 35 episodes on the Food Network in 2002 and 2003. In 2005, he began hosting the Travel Channels culinary and cultural adventure programs Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (2005–2012) and The Layover (2011–2013). In 2013, he began a three-season run as a judge on The Taste, and concurrently switched his travelogue programming to CNN to host Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown. Though best known for his culinary writings and television presentations, along with several books on food and cooking and travel adventures, Bourdain also wrote both fiction and historical nonfiction. On June 8, 2018, Bourdain died by suicide while on location in France for Parts Unknown
Writing
In the mid-1980s, Bourdain began submitting unsolicited work for publication to Between C & D, a literary magazine of the Lower East Side. The magazine eventually published a piece that Bourdain had written about a chef who was trying to purchase heroin in the Lower East Side. In 1985, Bourdain signed up for a writing workshop with Gordon Lish. In 1990, Bourdain received a small book advance from Random House, after meeting a Random House editor. His first book, a culinary mystery Bone in the Throat, was published in 1995.[25] He paid for his own book tour, but he did not find success. His second mystery book, Gone Bamboo, also performed poorly in sales.[28]
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (2000), a New York Times bestseller, was an expansion of his 1999 New Yorker article "Dont Eat Before Reading This."[29][30] A prequel to the book,[31] Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook, was published in 2010.[32]
He wrote two more bestselling nonfiction books: A Cooks Tour (2001),[33] an account of his food and travel exploits around the world, written in conjunction with his first television series of the same title,[33] and The Nasty Bits (2006), another collection of essays centered on food.[32] His additional books include Anthony Bourdains Les Halles Cookbook,[25] a hypothetical historical investigation Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical,[34] and No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach.[35]
His articles and essays appeared in many publications, including in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Times of London, the Los Angeles Times, The Observer, Gourmet, Maxim, and Esquire (UK) magazines; Scotland on Sunday, The Face, Food Arts, Limb by Limb, BlackBook, The Independent, Best Life, the Financial Times, and Town & Country. His blog for the third season of Top Chef[36] was nominated for a Webby Award for Best Blog (in the Cultural/Personal category) in 2008.[37]
In 2012, Bourdain co-wrote the original graphic novel Get Jiro! along with Joel Rose; its art was by Langdon Foss.[38][39]
In 2015, Bourdain joined the travel, food, and politics publication Roads & Kingdoms as the sites sole investor and editor-at-large.[40] Over the next several years, Bourdain contributed to the site and edited the Dispatched By Bourdain series. Bourdain and Roads & Kingdoms also partnered on the digital series Explore Parts Unknown, which launched in 2017 and won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series in 2018.[41][42]
Television
