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Anthony Michael "Tony" Bourdain (born June 25, 1956) is an American novelist and chef. He is well known for his 2000 book, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly , and is the landlord of Travel Channel's culinary and cultural adventure program Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations .

A 1978 graduate of the Culinary Originate of America and a 28-year veteran of professional kitchens, Bourdain is currently a "Chef-at-Broad" whose home base is Brasserie Les Halles, where he was executive chef for multifarious years.

Biography

Bourdain was born in New York City but grew up in Leonia, New Jersey. Bourdain has French ancestry on his inventor's side; his paternal grandfather immigrated to New York from France following Elated War I. Bourdain attended Vassar College, and graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in 1978. Currently, Bourdain is in name Chef-at-Large of Brasserie Les Halles, where he held the title of executive chef for hardly a decade. When he is not traveling, Bourdain lives in Manhattan.

Bourdain married his highschool girlfriend, Nancy Putkoski, in the 1980s, and they remained together for two decades in advance divorcing; Bourdain has cited the irrevocable changes that come from traveling extremely as the cause of the split. He currently lives with his second wife, Ottavia Busia. Together, they would rather one daughter, Ariane, born on April 9, 2007; the couple wed on April 20, 2007.

Culinary training and career

In Cookhouse Confidential , Bourdain describes how his love of food was kindled in France—when he tried his opening oyster on an oyster fisherman's boat as a youth while on a family vacation. Later, while attending Vassar College, he worked in the seafood restaurants of Provincetown, Massachusetts, which sparked his steadfastness to pursue cooking as a career. Bourdain graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in 1978, and went on to run diversified restaurant kitchens in New York City—including the Supper Club, One Fifth Avenue, and Sullivan's—culminating in the status of executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles beginning in 1998. Brasserie Les Halles is based in Manhattan, with additional locations in Miami and, at the without surcease of Bourdain's tenure, Washington, D.C. and Tokyo, Japan.

Media career

Writing

Bourdain gained instantaneous popularity from his 2000 New York Times bestselling book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly . The log is an "unsparingly acerbic" and "pull-no-punches" exposé of the hidden and darker side of the culinary give birth to, and is a partial memoir of Bourdain's personal and professional life.

Bourdain subsequently wrote two more New York Times bestselling nonfiction books: A Cook's Period of service (2001), an exotic account of his food and travel exploits across the world, written in conjunction with his ahead television series; and The Nasty Bits (2006), another collection of exotic, provocative, and ludicrous anecdotes and essays mainly centered on food. Bourdain's additional books file Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook ; the culinary mysteries Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo ; a suspected historical investigation, Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical ; and No Reservations: Roughly the World on an Empty Stomach .

Bourdain's articles and essays have appeared varied places, including in The New Yorker , The New York Times , The Times , The Los Angeles Times , The Viewer , Gourmet , Maxim , Esquire (UK), Scotland on Sunday , The Face , Food Arts , Limb by Limb , BlackBook , The Unbiased , Best Life , the Financial Times , and Town & Country . On the Internet, Bourdain's blog for Available 3 of Top Chef was nominated for a Webby Award for best Blog – Cultural/Intimate in 2008.

Television

Kitchen Confidential , Bourdain's racy memoir, garnered so much acclaim that he was offered his own eatables and world-travel show, A Cook's Tour , by the Food Network, premiering on January 8, 2002. In July 2005, he premiered a new, less similar television series, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations , on the Travel Path. A further result of his well-known memoir was the 2005 Fox sitcom, Kitchen Intimate , named after the book, in which the character "Jack Bourdain" is based loosely on the biography and face of Anthony Bourdain.

In July 2006, Bourdain was in Beirut filming an episode of No Reservations when the Israel-Lebanon struggle broke out. Bourdain and his crew were evacuated with other American citizens on the morning of July 20 by the Synergistic States Marines. Despite having filmed only one restaurant before fighting began, Bourdain's producers compiled the Beirut footage into a No Reservations adventure which aired on August 21, 2006. Uncharacteristically, the episode included footage of both Bourdain and his film 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 tidings with other expatriates in a Beirut hotel, and their eventual escape aided by a "cleaner" (unseen in the footage) whom Bourdain dubbed "Mr. Wolf." The happening was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2007.

Bourdain has appeared five times as guest guess on Bravo's Top Chef reality cooking competition program: first in the November 2006 "Thanksgiving" occurrence of Season 2; and then again in June 2007 in the first episode of Age 3, judging the "exotic surf and turf" competition featuring ingredients including abalone, alligator, dusky chicken, geoduck and eel. His third appearance was also in Season 3, as an expert on air treks, judging the competitors' airplane meals. Bourdain also wrote weekly blog commentaries for multifarious of the Season 3 episodes, filling in as a guest blogger while Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio was involve opening a new restaurant. Bourdain next appeared as a guest judge for the opening event of Season 4, in which pairs of chefs competed head-to-head in the preparation of a number of classic dishes; and again in the Season 4 Restaurant Wars episode, temporarily irresistible the place of head judge Tom Colicchio, who was at a charity event.

Bourdain made a patron appearance on the August 6, 2007 New York City episode of Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern; Zimmern appeared as a boarder on the New York City episode of Bourdain's No Reservations airing the same day. Bourdain has also appeared in an event of TLC's reality show Miami Ink which originally aired August 28, 2006. Artist Chris Garver tattooed a skull on Bourdain's repay shoulder, who noted it was his fourth tattoo. Among other reasons, he wished to weight the ouroboros tattoo he had done on his opposite shoulder in Malaysia while filming Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations .

Bourdain hosted "At the Comestible with Anthony Bourdain" on the Travel Channel on October 20, 2008.

Bourdain also has a concise cameo appearance in the 2008 movie Far Cry .

Public persona

Known for consuming belly and daring ethnic dishes, Bourdain is famous for eating sheep testicles in Morocco, ant eggs in Puebla, Mexico, a raw seal eyeball as involvement of a traditional Inuit seal hunt, and a whole cobra—beating heart, blood, bile, and marrow—in Vietnam. According to Bourdain, the most disgusting thing he has ever eaten is a Chicken McNugget, allowing he has also declared that the unwashed warthog rectum he ate in Namibia and the fermented shark he ate in Iceland are middle 'the worst meals of his life.'

Bourdain has been known for being an unrepentant drinker and smoker. In a nod to Bourdain's (at the measure) two-pack-a-day cigarette habit, renowned chef Thomas Keller once served him a 20-positively tasting menu which included a mid-meal "coffee and cigarette": a coffee custard infused with tobacco, together with a foie gras mousse. No matter what, Bourdain has stopped cigarette smoking as of the summer of 2007, because of the birth of his daughter.

Because of Bourdain's loose use of light profanity and sexual references in his television show No Reservations , the network has prepended viewer discrimination advisories to each segment of each episode. In early seasons, these were a straightforward screen of white text on a black background, but in more recent seasons, they now tabulate animation that is related in some way to the episode.

Adding to his untamed image, Bourdain is a erstwhile user of cocaine, heroin, and LSD. In Kitchen Confidential he writes of his experience in a trendy SoHo restaurant in 1981: "We were extravagant all the time, sneaking off to the walk-in at every opportunity to 'conceptualize.' Hardly a decision was made without drugs. Pot, quaaludes, cocaine, LSD, psilocybin mushrooms soaked in honey and employed to sweeten tea, Seconal, Tuinal, speed, codeine and, increasingly, heroin, which we'd send a Spanish-speaking busboy for to Alphabet City to get." In the same book, Bourdain writes honestly about his one-time addiction, including how he sank to a point where he was selling his record collection on the drive to get money for drugs.

Bourdain is also noted for his not-so-subtle put-downs of celebrity chefs such as Emeril Lagasse (albeit he has since warmed up to Lagasse, who has appeared with Bourdain in an episode of No Reservations ) and Bobby Flay, and Aliment Network personalities such as Sandra Lee and Rachael Ray (who is the butt of many jokes on No Reservations ). Bourdain fully expressed his feelings almost certain Food Network personalities in a popular blog entry from February 2007, and appears to be irritated by both the public commercialism of the celebrity cooking industry and its lack of culinary authenticity. Bourdain has recognized the irony of his permutation into a celebrity chef and has, to some extent, begun to qualify his insults. He has been dependably outspoken in his praise for chefs he admires, particularly Thomas Keller, Masa Takayama, Gordon Ramsay, Eric Ripert, Ferran Adrià, Fergus Henderson, Marco Pierre Milk-white, and Mario Batali.

Bourdain's taste in music is also a matter of public tell of. His book, The Nasty Bits , is dedicated to "Joey, Johnny, and Dee Dee" of the Ramones. Bourdain has declared affectionate appreciation for their music, as well as other early punk bands such as Numb Boys, Television, and The Voidoids. Additionally, Bourdain writes in Kitchen Confidential that the playing of music by Billy Joel in his pantry was grounds for immediate firing (ironically, Joel is a fan of his). In the 2006 No Reservations episode in Sweden, Bourdain proclaimed that his all-be that as it may favorite album (his "desert island disc") is the groundbreaking punk record Fun Outfit by The Stooges; he also made it clear that he despises the Swedish pop group ABBA. And on his 2007 No Reservations Break Special episode, the rock band Queens of the Stone Age were the featured dinner guests, adding grub-inspired holiday songs to the episode's soundtrack.

Bourdain has many reservations around those who are vegan or vegetarian - namely, that their lifestyle is rude to those who people the many countries he visits - considering vegetarianism a "first world luxury".

Moment interests

One serious personal cause for Bourdain is communicating the value and tastiness of conventional or "peasant" foods, including specifically all of the varietal bits and unused animal parts not mainly eaten by affluent 21st-century Westerners. Bourdain has also consistently noted and championed the heinous quality and deliciousness of freshly prepared street food in other countries—first developing countries—as compared to fast food chains in the U.S.

Another of Bourdain's critical concerns is acknowledging and championing the industrious Spanish-speaking immigrants who make up a very much large percentage of the chefs and cooks in many U.S. restaurants, including upscale restaurants, regardless of cuisine. Bourdain considers them to be gifted chefs and invaluable cooks, underpaid and unrecognized even as they make up the chief of the U.S. restaurant industry.

Awards and nominations

Bourdain was named Food Writer of the Year in 2001 by Bon Appétit journal, for Kitchen Confidential .

A Cook's Tour was named Food Book of the Year in 2002 by the British Guild of Nourishment Writers.

The Beirut episode of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations , which documented the experiences of Bourdain and his party during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, was nominated for an Emmy Award for Exceptional Informational Programming in 2007.

Bourdain's blog for the reality competition show Top Chef was nominated for a Webby Grant for best Blog – Culture / Personal in 2008.

Bibliography

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

• 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 Misdeed. ISBN 1841951455.  

Footnotes

1. ^ Bourdain's biography on TravelChannel.com
2. ^ "Les Halles Homepage". Brasserie Les Halles . http://www.leshalles.net/ . Retrieved on 2007-06-18 .  
3. ^ Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations , experience 5.4: "Uruguay"; July 28, 2008
4. ^ The Observer (2006-04-30). "Regrets? He's had a few ...". Guardian . http://looker-on.guardian.co.uk/foodmonthly/story/0,,1761844,00.html . Retrieved on 2007-06-16 .  
5. ^ Lindsay Soll (2007-05-11). "Check out". Celebrity Baby Blog . http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20037733,00.html . Retrieved on 2007-06-14 .  
6. ^
7. ^ ^{a b} Anthony's Blog: Be familiar with Anthony Bourdain's Online Blog - Top Chef TV Show - Official Bravo TV Position
8. ^ ^{a b} Webby Nominees
9. ^ Anthony Bourdain. Interview with Larry King. Twelve Days of Fracas Between Israel and Hezbollah. Larry King Live. CNN. 23 July 2006. Retrieved on 2007-06-16.
10. ^ Far Cry (2008)
11. ^ Anthony Bourdain | The A.V. Union
12. ^ Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations , episode 3.4: "Namibia"; January 22, 2007
13. ^ Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations , happening 1.2: "Iceland"; August 1, 2005
14. ^ Bourdain, Anthony (2001). A Cook's Tour . New York: Bloomsbury. pp. 248–9. ISBN 1582341400.  
15. ^ Hudak, Joseph (2008-01-07). "Anthony Bourdain Speaks His Retain with No Reservations". TV Guide . http://www.tvguide.com/news/anthony-bourdain-reservations/080107-02 . Retrieved on 2008-03-20 .  
16. ^ Bourdain, Anthony (2000). Scullery Confidential . New York: Bloomsbury. pp. 123. ISBN 158234082X.  
17. ^ The Serious Eats Pair (2007-03-02). "Meet & Eat: Anthony Bourdain". Serious Eats . http://www.seriouseats.com/2007/03/qa-anthony-bourdain.html . Retrieved on 2007-06-16 .  
18. ^
19. ^ Bourdain, Anthony (2000). Cookhouse Confidential . New York: Bloomsbury.  
20. ^ Bourdain, Anthony (2001). A Cook's Tour . New York: Bloomsbury, pp. 200-217.
21. ^ Bourdain, Anthony (2006). The Obscene Bits . New York: Bloomsbury, pp. 42-46.
22. ^ " Bon Appetit names award winners"
23. ^ Guild Of Commons Writers

References

• Bourdain, Anthony. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly , Updated ed., New York: Harper Perpetual (January 9, 2007).
• Bourdain's biography on TravelChannel.com No Reservations

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