Anthony Bourdain
Bourdain in June 2006
Born	June 25, 1956 (1956-06-25) (age 51)
Location	New York City, New York
Cooking style	French
Education	Vassar College; Culinary Institute of America
Current Restaurant(s) Brasserie Les Halles (New York City)
Television show(s) A Cook's Tour Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations

Anthony Michael "Tony" Bourdain (born June 25, 1956) is an American author and chef. He is well known for his 2000 book, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. Bourdain is also the host of Travel Channel's culinary and cultural adventure program, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. Bourdain is currently the "Chef-at-Large" of Brasserie Les Halles, based in New York City with locations in Miami, Florida, and Washington, D.C.^[1] Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 533 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (591 × 665 pixel, file size: 90 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... A car from 1956 Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... New York, New York redirects here. ... Vassar College is a private, coeducational, liberal arts college situated in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. Founded as a womens college in 1861, it was the first member of the Seven Sisters to become coeducational. ... The Culinary Institute of America is a training institute for culinary arts in the United States, and is regarded as one of the worlds top culinary schools. ... A Fancy French restaurant in NYC. Anthony Bourdain is the executive chef there. ... A Cooks Tour is a travel and food show that aired on the Food Network. ... is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... A car from 1956 Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Author (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Chef (disambiguation). ... Kitchen Confidential is a book written by American chef Anthony Bourdain in 2000. ... The Travel Channel is a cable television network that features documentaries and how-to shows related to travel and leisure around the United States and throughout the world. ... A Fancy French restaurant in NYC. Anthony Bourdain is the executive chef there. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Miami redirects here. ... This article is about the U.S. State of Florida. ... ...

Biography

Bourdain was born in New York City but grew up in Leonia, New Jersey.^[2][3] He attended Vassar College and the Culinary Institute of America. Chef-at-Large of Brasserie Les Halles, Bourdain currently lives in Manhattan with his wife, Ottavia Busia. Together, they have one daughter, Ariane, born on April 9, 2007. The couple were wed on April 20, eleven days after her birth.^[4] Bourdain was divorced from his first wife, Nancy Putkoski, in 2007.^{[5] [6]} Leonia is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. ... Vassar College is a private, coeducational, liberal arts college situated in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. Founded as a womens college in 1861, it was the first member of the Seven Sisters to become coeducational. ... The Culinary Institute of America is a training institute for culinary arts in the United States, and is regarded as one of the worlds top culinary schools. ... A Fancy French restaurant in NYC. Anthony Bourdain is the executive chef there. ... This article is about the borough of New York City. ... is the 99th day of the year (100th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...

Culinary training and career

In Kitchen Confidential, Bourdain describes how his love of food was kindled in France — when he tried his first oyster on an oyster fisherman's boat as a youth while on a family vacation. While attending Vassar College, he worked in the seafood restaurants of Provincetown, Massachusetts, which sparked his decision to pursue cooking as a career. Bourdain graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in 1978, and went on to run various kitchens in New York City — including the Supper Club, One Fifth Avenue, and Sullivan's — culminating in the position of executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in 1998. Kitchen Confidential is a book written by American chef Anthony Bourdain in 2000. ... For other uses, see Oyster (disambiguation). ... Provincetown is a town located at the tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... The Culinary Institute of America is a training institute for culinary arts in the United States, and is regarded as one of the worlds top culinary schools. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...

Media career

Print

Bourdain gained immediate popularity from his 2000 New York Times bestselling book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. The book is a witty and rambunctious exposé of the hidden and darker side of the culinary world, and is a memoir of Bourdain's professional life as well. The New York Times Best Seller List is a weekly chart in The New York Times newspaper that keeps track of the best-selling books of the week. ... Kitchen Confidential is a book written by American chef Anthony Bourdain in 2000. ...

In 2001, Bourdain followed this with A Cook's Tour, an exotic account of his food and travel exploits across the world, written in conjunction with his first television series. He has also published The Nasty Bits, another collection of exotic anecdotes centered around food, and Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook. His additional books include two culinary mysteries, Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo, and a hypothetical historical investigation, Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical. A Cooks Tour is a book written by chef Anthony Bourdain in 2001. ...

Bourdain's articles have appeared many places, including in The New York Times, The Times, The Observer, Maxim, Scotland on Sunday, The Face, Limb by Limb, Black Book, and The Independent. He is also a contributing authority for Food Arts magazine. The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. ... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom (and the Kingdom of Great Britain before the United Kingdom existed) since 1788 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Maxim is an international English language lad mag (mens magazine) based in the United Kingdom and known for its revealing pictorials featuring popular actresses, singers, and female models, of which none are nudes. ... The Scotsman is a Scottish newspaper published in Edinburgh. ... For other uses, see The Face (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see The Independent (disambiguation). ...

Television

Kitchen Confidential, Bourdain's racy memoir, garnered so much acclaim that Bourdain was offered his own food and world-travel show, A Cook's Tour, by the Food Network, premiering on January 8, 2002. In July 2005, he premiered a new, somewhat similar television series, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, on the Travel Channel. A further result of his well-known memoir was the 2005 Fox sitcom, Kitchen Confidential, named after the book, in which the character "Jack Bourdain" is based loosely on the biography and persona of Anthony Bourdain. A Cooks Tour is a travel and food show that aired on the Food Network. ... Food Network is an American cable network that airs many specials and recurring (episodic) shows about food. ... is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Travel Channel is a cable television network that features documentaries and how-to shows related to travel and leisure around the United States and throughout the world. ... FOX redirects here. ...

In July 2006 Bourdain was in Beirut filming an episode of No Reservations when the Israel-Lebanon conflict broke out. Bourdain and his crew were evacuated with other American citizens on the morning of July 20 by the U.S. Marines.^[7] Despite having filmed only one restaurant before fighting began, Bourdain's producers compiled the Beirut footage into a No Reservations episode which aired on August 21, 2006. Uncharacteristically, the episode included footage of both Bourdain and his production staff, and included not only their initial attempts to film the episode, but also their firsthand encounters with Hezbollah supporters, their days of waiting for news with other expatriates in a Beirut hotel, and their eventual escape aided by a "cleaner" (unseen in the footage) who Bourdain dubbed "Mister Wolfe". The episode was nominated for an Emmy Award on July 18, 2007. This article is about the Lebanese city. ... Combatants Hezbollah Amal LCP  Israel Commanders Hassan Nasrallah (Secretary General of Hezbollah) Imad Mughniyeh (Commander of Hezbollahs armed wing)[5] Dan Halutz (CoS) Moshe Kaplinsky[12] Udi Adam (Regional) Strength 600-1,000 active fighters 3,000-10,000 reservists[6] 30,000 ground troops (plus IAF & ISC)[13... is the 201st day of the year (202nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... United States Marine Corps Emblem The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is the second smallest of the five branches of the United States armed forces, with 170,000 active and 40,000 reserve Marines as of 2002. ... is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Hezbollah (disambiguation). ... An Emmy Award. ...

Bourdain has appeared four times as guest judge on Bravo's Top Chef reality cooking competition program; first in November 2006, "Thanksgiving" episode of Season 2, again in June 2007 in the first episode of Season 3 to judge the "exotic surf and turf" featuring ingredients including abalone, alligator, black chicken, geoduck and eel, and again in Season 3 as a near expert of air travel, judging the competitors' airplane meals. He also wrote weekly blog commentaries for many of the Season 3 episodes, filling in as a guest blogger while Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio was busy opening a new restaurant. Most recently, Bourdain appeared as a guest judge for the opening episode of Season 4, in which pairs of chefs competed head-to-head in the preparation of various classic dishes. This article is about the U.S. cable network. ... Top Chef is an American reality competition show that airs on the cable television network Bravo, in which chefs compete against each other in weekly challenges. ... The second season of Top Chef began airing on Bravo on October 18, 2006. ... The third season of American reality television series Top Chef (also advertised as Top Chef Miami) began airing on Bravo on June 13, 2007. ... Surf and turf is a main course particularly common in steakhouses which combines seafood and meat, usually American lobster tail and steak. ... Species Many, see species section. ... For other uses, see Alligator (disambiguation). ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ... Binomial name Conrad, 1849 The geoduck (pronounced gooey duck),[1] Panopea abrupta or Panope generosa, is a species of large saltwater clam, also known as the king clam or elephant trunk clam. ... For other uses, see Eel (disambiguation). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Thomas Patrick Tom Colicchio (August 15, 1962 in Elizabeth, New Jersey) is a noted American chef. ...

Bourdain also appeared in an episode of TLC's reality show Miami Ink which originally aired August 28, 2006. Artist Chris Garver tattooed a skull on Bourdain's right shoulder, who noted it was his fourth tattoo. Among other reasons, he wished to balance the ouroboros tattoo he had done on this opposite shoulder in Malaysia while filming Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. TLC (The Learning Channel) is a cable TV network in the US and Canada, that carries a variety of informational and reality-based programming. ... // This article is about the genre of TV shows. ... Miami Ink is a reality show on TLC that follows the events that take place at 305 Ink (also known as Miami Ink), a tattoo shop in Miami Beach. ... is the 240th day of the year (241st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Chris Garver, (born September 11, 1970), is a tattoo artist featured on the Miami Ink reality television show on the TLC. Garver was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he attended The Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts. ... For other uses, see Ouroboros (disambiguation). ...

Public persona

Known for consuming exotic and daring ethnic dishes, Bourdain is famous for eating sheep testicles in Morocco, ant eggs in Puebla, Mexico, a raw seal eyeball as part of a traditional Inuit seal hunt, and a whole cobra — beating heart, blood, bile, and meat — in Vietnam. According to Bourdain, the most disgusting thing he has ever eaten is a Chicken McNugget, though he did declare the warthog rectum he ate in Namibia and the fermented shark he ate in Iceland as among 'the worst meals of his life.' Species See text. ... Human male anatomy The testicles, known medically as testes (singular testis), are the male generative glands in animals. ... For other uses, see Ant (disambiguation). ... In most birds and reptiles, an egg (Latin ovum) is the zygote, resulting from fertilization of the ovum. ... Nickname: Location of Puebla in central Mexico Coordinates: Country Mexico State Puebla Founded 1531 Government  - Mayor Enrique Doger (PRI) Area  - City 546 km²  (211 sq mi) Elevation 2,175 m (7,136 ft) Population (2005)  - City 1,485,941  - Density 5,741/km² (14,869. ... Families Odobenidae Otariidae Phocidae Pinnipeds (fin-feet, lit. ... For other uses, see Eye (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Inuit (disambiguation). ... Egyptian Cobra Cobras are venomous snakes of family Elapidae, of several genera. ... The heart and lungs, from an older edition of Grays Anatomy. ... Bile (or gall) is a bitter, yellow or green alkaline fluid secreted by hepatocytes from the liver of most vertebrates. ... For other uses, see Meat (disambiguation). ... Chicken McNuggets (introduced in June 1983) are a fast food product offered by the restaurant chain McDonalds. ...

Bourdain has been known for being an unrepentant drinker and smoker. In a nod to Bourdain's (at the time) two-pack-a-day cigarette habit, renowned chef Thomas Keller once served him a 20-course tasting menu including a mid-meal "coffee and cigarettes" dish of foie gras with tobacco-infused custard.^[8] However, Bourdain has stopped smoking as of the summer of 2007 because of the birth of his daughter.^[9] This article is about the chef. ... Pâté de foie gras redirects here. ... Shredded tobacco leaf for pipe smoking Tobacco can also be pressed into plugs and sliced into flakes Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the fresh leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. ...

Because of his liberal use of light profanity and sexual references in his television show No Reservations, the network has prepended viewer discretion advisories to each segment of each episode. In cartoons, profanity is often depicted by substituting symbols for words, as a form of non-specific censorship. ...

Adding to his untamed image, Bourdain is a former user of cocaine, heroin, and LSD. In Kitchen Confidential he writes of his experience in a trendy SoHo restaurant in 1981: "We were high all the time, sneaking off to the walk-in [refrigerator] at every opportunity to 'conceptualize.' Hardly a decision was made without drugs. Pot, quaaludes, cocaine, LSD, psilocybin mushrooms soaked in honey and used to sweeten tea, Seconal, Tuinal, speed, codeine and, increasingly, heroin, which we'd send a Spanish-speaking busboy over to Alphabet City to get."^[10] For other uses, see Cocaine (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Heroin (disambiguation). ... Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly called LSD, LSD-25, or acid. ... Cast-iron architecture in Greene Street SoHo is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. ... A Cannabis sativa plant The drug cannabis, also called marijuana, is produced from parts of the cannabis plant, primarily the cured flowers and gathered trichomes of the female plant. ... Methaqualone1 is an addictive, sedative drug. ... For other uses, see Cocaine (disambiguation). ... Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly called LSD, LSD-25, or acid. ... Psilocybin (also known as psilocybine) is a psychedelic alkaloid of the tryptamine family, found in psilocybin mushrooms. ... For other uses, see Honey (disambiguation). ... Seconal is a trademark name for the barbiturate sodium quinalbarbitone. ... Tuinal is the brand name of a drug that combines two barbiturates — secobarbital and amobarbital — in equal proportions. ... Speed can refer to: Speed, rate of motion Speed, a United States film Speed, an IMAX documentary Amphetamines or methamphetamine (slang term) Speed, Victoria, a town in Victoria, Australia. ... Codeine (INN) or methylmorphine is an opiate used for its analgesic, antitussive and antidiarrheal properties. ... For other uses, see Heroin (disambiguation). ... Alphabet City, formerly considered a slum, is now a trendy part of the East Village in the New York City borough of Manhattan. ...

Bourdain is also noted for his not-so-subtle put-downs of celebrity chefs like Emeril Lagasse (though he has since warmed up a little to Lagasse, who has appeared with Bourdain in an episode of No Reservations), Sandra Lee, and Rachael Ray (who is the butt of many jokes on No Reservations). Bourdain fully expressed his feelings about certain Food Network personalities in a popular blog entry from February 2007,[1] and appears to be irritated by both the overt commercialism of the celebrity cooking industry and its lack of culinary authenticity. Bourdain has recognized the irony of his transformation into a celebrity chef and has, to some extent, begun to qualify his insults. He has been consistently outspoken in his praise for chefs he admires, particularly Thomas Keller, Masa Takayama, Gordon Ramsay, Eric Ripert, Ferran Adrià, Fergus Henderson, Marco Pierre White, and Mario Batali.^[11] Emeril John Lagasse (born October 15, 1959, Fall River, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, television personality, and cookbook author. ... The first edition of Sandra Lees first book Sandra Lee (born July 3, 1966 in Los Angeles, California) is an American author, innovator, and television cooking-show host. ... EVOO redirects here. ... Food Network is an American cable network that airs many specials and recurring (episodic) shows about food. ... This article is about the chef. ... Masa is a high-end sushi restaurant with just 26 seats, located in the Time Warner Center in Columbus Circle, Manhattan, New York. ... Gordon James Ramsay OBE (born November 8, 1966 in Johnstone) is a Scottish celebrity chef and currently one of only three chefs in the UK whose restaurant is rated at three Michelin stars. ... Eric Ripert (born 1965 in Antibes, France) is a French chef working in New York City. ... Ferran Adrià Acosta is a Catalan chef born 14 May 1962 in LHospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, is the famed head chef of El Bulli Restaurant in Roses on the Costa Brava. ... Fergus Henderson, born 1963, is a moderately famous British chef most notable for his use of the undesirable parts of an animal. ... Marco Pierre White (born 11 December 1961) is an English chef and restaurateur. ... Mario Batali (b. ...

His book, The Nasty Bits, is dedicated to "Joey, Johnny, and Dee Dee" of the Ramones. Bourdain has declared fond appreciation for their music, as well as other early punk bands such as Dead Boys, Television and The Voidoids. Additionally, Bourdain writes in Kitchen Confidential that the playing of music by Billy Joel in his kitchen was grounds for immediate firing. In a Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations episode in Sweden, Bourdain proclaimed that his all time favorite album (his "desert island disc") is the groundbreaking punk record Fun House by The Stooges; he also revealed that he despises Swedish pop supergroup ABBA. Joey Ramone (May 19, 1951 – April 15, 2001), born as Jeffry Ross Hyman, was a vocalist and songwriter best known for his work in the punk rock group the Ramones. ... John William Cummings (October 8, 1948 – September 15, 2004), better known by the stage name Johnny Ramone, was the guitarist for the seminal punk rock group The Ramones. ... Dee Dee Ramone, 1979 Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Glenn Colvin) (September 18, 1951 - June 5, 2002) was a German American songwriter and bassist, best remembered as a founding member of punk rock band The Ramones. ... This article is about the band. ... The Dead Boys were a early punk band that formed in Cleveland, Ohio about 1975, evolving out of the band Rocket From The Tombs. ... The Voidoids, also known as Richard Hell and the Voidoids, were a New York City punk rock band of the late 1970s, fronted by Richard Hell, a former member of Television. ... William Joseph Martin Billy Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer, pianist, songwriter, composer and musician. ... Alternate covers 2005 Reissue sleeve For other uses see Funhouse (disambiguation) Fun House is the second album by the American rock band The Stooges. ... This article is about the rock band. ... Abba redirects here. ...

Bibliography

Fiction

• Bourdain, Anthony (1995). Bone in the Throat. New York: Villard Books. ISBN 0679435522. 
• Bourdain, Anthony (1997). Gone Bamboo. New York: Villard Books. ISBN 0679448802. 
• Bourdain, Anthony (2001). Bobby Gold. Edinburgh: Canongate Crime. ISBN 1841951455. 

Non-Fiction

• Bourdain, Anthony (2000). Kitchen Confidential. New York: Bloomsbury. ISBN 158234082X. 
• Bourdain, Anthony (2001). A Cook's Tour. New York: Bloomsbury. ISBN 1582341400. 
• Bourdain, Anthony (2001). Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical. New York: Bloomsbury. ISBN 1582341339. 
• Bourdain, Anthony (2004). Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781582341804. 
• Bourdain, Anthony (2006). The Nasty Bits. New York: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1596913608. 
• Bourdain, Anthony (2007). No Reservations. New York: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781596914476. 

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References

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