Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain is an American author and restauranteur, who was born in New York in 1956. He began his love of food when he was young in France. He was on an oyster fisherman's boat and tried his first oyster and ever since he has traveled the world in search for food good and bad.

Bourdain gained popularity from his New York Times bestselling book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. Anthony Bourdain is somewhat of a legend in the working class of cooks. Few who work the line or even dishwash in a restaurant haven't read his book, Kitchen Confidential which exposes the darker side of the culinary world. Bourdain has written other books including Gone Bamboo, Bone in the Throat, Typhoid Mary (An Urban Historical), and A Cook's Tour which was made in conjunction with a TV series on the Food Network. He is executive chef at Les Halles, a French restaurant in New York.