Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain was an American chef, author, and travel documentarian who trained at the Culinary Institute of America and graduated in 1978. He ran the kitchen at Brasserie Les Halles in Manhattan. A New Yorker essay in the late 1990s launched his writing career, and his book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly became a New York Times bestseller in 2000. He moved into television with A Cook's Tour on the Food Network from 2002 to 2003, then hosted Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations and The Layover on the Travel Channel. He judged The Taste, earning an Emmy nomination for each season, and from 2013 hosted Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown on CNN, which won the Emmy for Outstanding Informational Series or Special in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2018. He also wrote fiction and appeared as himself in The Big Short (2015). Bourdain died in 2018.