Anthony Bourdain Biography| Wiki
Anthony Bourdain born Anthony Michael Bourdain, was an American celebrity chef, author, tv personality and travel documentarian who featured in programs focusing on the demystification of international culture, cuisine, and the human condition in a nutshell. He is still considered one of the most influential chefs in the world to date.
He was a graduate of The Culinary Institute of America class of 1978, propelling him to be the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in Manhattan. He first became popular for his bestselling book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly which was published in the year 2000. Bourdain’s premier food and world-travel television show titled ‘A Cook’s Tour’, ran for 35 episodes on the Food Network in the years 2002 and 2003 making his face more familiar to his audience. In 2005, he hosted the Travel Channel’s culinary and cultural adventure programs ‘Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations’ which aired from 2005–2012 as well as The Layover which aired in 2011 to 2013. Bourdain began a three-season run as a judge on The Taste which aired in 2013 and concurrently switched his travelogue programming to CNN to host Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.
Anthony Bourdain Age| Birthday
Anthony Bourdain was born on June 25, 1956, but met his death on June 8, 2018, when he was found hanging in his hotel room Le Chambard hotel in Kaysersberg, near Colmar, 17 days before his 62nd birthday.
Anthony Bourdain Height
Bourdain had a good height of 6 Feet and 4 Inches (1.93m). His original hair color was black and his eye color was brown.
Anthony Bourdain Family
Bourdain was the older sibling of two sons born to Pierre and Gladys (née Sacksman) Bourdain. Although Bourdain was not raised in a specified religion, his father was Catholic and his mother was Jewish. Bourdain stated that even though considered Jewish by the teachings of Judaism, “I’ve never been in a synagogue. I don’t believe in a higher power. But that doesn’t make me any less Jewish…”. Bourdain also stated that his family was not religious.
At the time of Bourdain’s birth, his father was a salesman at a New York City camera store as well as a floor manager at a record store. Pierre Bourdain later became an executive for Columbia Records, and Gladys Bourdain was a staff editor at The New York Times. Bourdain’s paternal grandparents were French; his paternal grandfather emigrated from Arcachon to New York following World War I. Bourdain’s father spent summers in France as a boy and grew up speaking French.
Anthony Bourdain Relationships| Wife
Bourdain married his high school girlfriend, Nancy Putkoski, in 1985, and they remained together for two decades, divorcing in 2005. On April 20, 2007, he married Ottavia Busia, a mixed martial artist. The couple’s daughter named Ariane was born in 2007. Bourdain noted that having to be away from his wife and child for about 250 days a year working on his television shows became a strain. Busia appeared in several episodes of No Reservations, notably the ones in Sardinia, Tuscany, which happens to be her birthplace where she plays as a disgruntled Italian diner, Rome, Rio de Janeiro, and Naples. The couple separated in 2016. In 2017, Bourdain began dating the Italian actress Asia Argento, whom he met when she appeared on the Rome episode of Parts Unknown.
Anthony Bourdain Cookbook
Bourdain’s cookbook ‘Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, a New York Times bestseller, was published in 2000. It was an expansion of his 1999 New Yorker article “Don’t Eat Before Reading This.” A sequel to the book, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook, was published in 2010.
He wrote two more bestselling nonfiction books: A Cook’s Tour (2001), an account of his food and travel exploits around the world, written in conjunction with his first television series of the same title, and The Nasty Bits (2006), another collection of essays centered on food. His additional books include Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook, the culinary mysteries Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo, a hypothetical historical investigation, Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical, and No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach.
His articles and essays appeared in many publications, including in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Times of London, the Los Angeles Times, The Observer, Gourmet, Maxim, and Esquire (UK) magazines; Scotland on Sunday, The Face, Food Arts, Limb by Limb, BlackBook, The Independent, Best Life, the Financial Times, and Town & Country. His blog for the third season of Top Chef was nominated for a Webby Award for Best Blog (in the Cultural/Personal category) in 2008.
In 2012, Bourdain co-wrote the original graphic novel Get Jiro! along with Joel Rose; its art was by Langdon Foss.
In 2015, Bourdain joined the travel, food, and politics publication Roads & Kingdoms as the site’s sole investor and editor-at-large. Over the next several years, Bourdain contributed to the site and edited the Dispatched By Bourdain series. Bourdain and Roads & Kingdoms also partnered on the digital series Explore Parts Unknown, which launched in 2017 and won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series in 2018.
Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown
Bourdain announced that he would be leaving the Travel Channel in May 2012, . In December he explained on his blog that his departure was due to his frustration with the channel’s new ownership using his voice and image to make it seem as if he were endorsing a car brand, and the channel’s creating three “special episodes” consisting solely of clips from the seven official episodes of that season. He went on to host Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown for CNN. The program focuses on other cuisines, cultures, and politics and premiered on April 14, 2013.
Anthony Bourdain Obama
President Barack Obama was featured on the program in an episode filmed in Vietnam that aired on September 2016. There’s a photo you’ve probably seen of Barack Obama and Anthony Bourdain hunched over a small table in Hanoi. Their sleeves are rolled up, their top buttons unbuttoned. The floor is speckled with dirt and a rusty fan blows air from a corner. Obama, a few months into his final year in office, is orating, and Bourdain is listening, really listening – he holds eye contact with the president and lets his shoulders relax. The show was filmed and is set in places as diverse as Libya, Tokyo, the Punjab region, Jamaica, Turkey, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Far West Texas and Armenia.
Anthony Bourdain Trump
Bourdain was an outspoken critic of Trump, having previously described the president as someone who had “not left me with a favorable impression” and compared Trump’s popularity to that of the 1930s Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
Seven months before the 2016 election, Bourdain told Business Insider’s Richard Feloni: “Mussolini served his country in combat and did a credible job, and I don’t think you could say that about, you know, this guy,” referring to Trump.
Last September, Bourdain also joked that he would poison Trump and Kim Jong Un if they asked him to cater for a meeting. The criticism he received for the joke is what prompted him to take his show to West Virginia.
Anthony Bourdain Jiu-Jitsu
Bourdain practiced the martial art Brazilian jiu-jitsu, earning a blue belt in August 2015. He won gold at the IBJJF New York Spring International Open Championship 2016, in the Middleweight Master 5 (age 56 and older) division.
Anthony Bourdain Religion
Bourdain stated that even though considered Jewish by the teachings of Judaism, “I’ve never been in a synagogue. I don’t believe in a higher power. But that doesn’t make me any less Jewish…”. Bourdain also stated that his family was not religious
Anthony Bourdain Restaurant
Bourdain runs various restaurant kitchens in New York City—including the Supper Club, One-Fifth Avenue, and Sullivan’s. In 1998, Bourdain became an executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles. Based in Manhattan, at the time the brand had additional restaurants in Miami, Washington, D.C., and Tokyo. Bourdain remained executive chef there for many years, and, even when no longer formally employed at Les Halles, maintained a relationship with the restaurant, which described him in January 2014 as their “chef at large.” Les Halles closed in 2017, after filing for bankruptcy
Anthony Bourdain Boots
Bourdain was known to be pretty open about his love for the desert boot—specifically, the OG Clarks version. Back in 2013, he was quoted saying; “they go off and on very quickly, they’re super comfortable, you can beat the hell out of them, and they’re cheap.” The Clarks Originals desert boot rings it at $130 flat for the tan suede iteration Bourdain wore most often.
Anthony Bourdain Drugs
Bourdain was known to be a heavy smoker. In a nod to Bourdain’s (at the time) two-pack-a-day cigarette habit, Thomas Keller once served him a 20-course tasting menu which included a mid-meal “coffee and cigarette”: a coffee custard infused with tobacco, together with a foie gras mousse. Bourdain stopped cigarette smoking in mid-2007 for the sake of his daughter.
A former user of cocaine, heroin, and LSD, he wrote in his book Kitchen Confidential, 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. Cannabis, methaqualone, cocaine, LSD, psilocybin mushrooms soaked in honey and used to sweeten tea, secobarbital, amphetamine, codeine and, increasingly, heroin, which we’d send a Spanish-speaking busboy over to Alphabet City to get.
Anthony Bourdain Merchandise
Click here to view some of his merchandise which includes Bourdain inspired T-shirts.
Anthony Bourdain Website
Click here to view Bourdain’s website.
Anthony Bourdain Books
Nonfiction
- Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. New York: Bloomsbury. 2000.
- A Cook’s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal. New York: Bloomsbury. 2001.
- Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical. New York: Bloomsbury. 2001.
- Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook. Bloomsbury. 2004.
- The Nasty Bits. New York: Bloomsbury. 2006.
- No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach. New York: Bloomsbury. 2007.
- Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook. Ecco/HarperCollins. 2010.
- Appetites: A Cookbook. Ecco Press. 2016. .
Fiction
- Bone-in the Throat. New York: Villard Books. 1995.
- Gone Bamboo. New York: Villard Books. 1997. .
- Bobby Gold. Edinburgh: Canongate Crime. 2001. .
- Get Jiro!. DC Comics. 2012.. with Joe Rose and Langdon Foss
- Get Jiro: Blood and Sushi. DC Comics. 2015. with Joe Rose and Ale Garza
Anthony Bourdain Awards
- Bourdain was named Food Writer of the Year in 2001 by Bon Appétit magazine for Kitchen Confidential.
- A Cook’s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal was named Food Book of the Year in 2002 by the British Guild of Food Writers.
- The Beirut episode of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, which documented the experiences of Bourdain and his crew during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming in 2007.
- Bourdain’s blog for the reality competition show Top Chef was nominated for a Webby Award for best Blog – Culture/Personal in 2008.
- In 2008, Bourdain was inducted into the James Beard Foundation’s Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America.
- In 2009 and 2011, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations won a Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming.
- In 2010, Bourdain was nominated for a Creative Arts Emmy for Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming.
- In 2012, Bourdain was awarded an Honorary Clio Award, which is given to individuals who are changing the world by encouraging people to think differently.
- In 2012, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations won the Critics’ Choice Best Reality Series award.
- In 2013, 2014 and 2015, Bourdain was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program for The Taste.
- Each year from 2013 to 2016 & 2018, Bourdain won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series or Special for Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.
- In 2014, the 2013 season of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown won a Peabody Award, which was accepted by Bourdain.
- In December 2017, The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa in the Culinary Arts to Bourdain, who graduated from the CIA with an associate degree in 1978.
- In 2018, Explore Parts Unknown won a 2018 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series in partnership with Roads & Kingdoms.
Anthony Bourdain Youtube| Facebook|Instagram| Twitter
Bourdain was active on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. He had around 1.8 million followers on Facebook, more than 2.6 million followers on Instagram and had more than 7.5 million followers on Twitter.
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