Chef and author Anthony Bourdain wrote the New York Times bestselling memoirs Kitchen Confidential, Medium Raw, and A Cook's Tour; the collection The Nasty Bits; the novels Bone in the Throat, The Bobby Gold Stories, and Gone Bamboo; the biography Typhoid Mary; and the cookbooks Appetites and Les Halles Cookbook.

Bourdain was the host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning docuseries Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown on CNN, and prior to that hosted the Emmy Award-winning No Reservations and The Layover on the Travel Channel and The Taste on ABC.

"If you can choke the thing down, you'll probably wake up grinning in the middle of the night. Bourdain is a force of unruly nature . . . In a style partaking of Hunter S. Thompson, Iggy Pop and a little Jonathan Swift, Bourdain gleefully rips through the scenery to reveal private backstage horrors little dreamed of by the trusting public" --New York Times

"Utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo and precise ear for kitchen patois." --New York magazine

"Hysterical.... Bourdain gleefully rips through the scenery to reveal private backstage horrors." --New York Times Book Review

"The kind of book you read in one sitting, then rush about annoying your coworkers by declaiming whole passages." --USA Today

"Benedict Arnold. Alger Hiss. Anthony Bourdain." --London Evening Standard

"With equal parts wit and wickedness, Bourdain [does] the unthinkable by revealing trade secrets that chefs and restaurateurs cringe to read" --Restaurant Business magazine