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Anthony Bourdain
Turning restaurant experience into Kitchen Confidential and television journeys through food and culture.
Kitchen Confidential · No Reservations
- Born
- 25 June 1956
- Birthplace
- New York City, United States
- Died
- 8 June 2018
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Anthony Bourdain
An American chef, author and presenter who used meals to explore the lives of people and places. His programmes connected cooking with history, work and politics.
Early life
New Jersey upbringing
Grew up in New Jersey; early restaurant jobs helped steer him toward cooking.
Culinary training
Graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in 1978.
Career
- 1970s–1990s
Restaurant kitchens
Worked through New York restaurants and became executive chef at Les Halles.
- 2000
Publishing breakthrough
Kitchen Confidential brought his account of kitchen life to a wide readership.
- 2002–2012
Travel television
Presented A Cook’s Tour and No Reservations.
- 2013–2018
Parts Unknown
Expanded his reporting through food, culture and political context.
Selected work
Kitchen Confidential
A memoir of professional kitchens and their working culture.
No Reservations
A travel series built around local food and encounters.
Parts Unknown
A series exploring places often reduced to stereotypes or headlines.
Beyond food
Writing
Also wrote crime fiction and essays.
Family
Had a daughter, Ariane, with Ottavia Busia; he died in France in 2018.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Photo: Peabody Awards. CC BY 2.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
