Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Michael Bourdainis an American chef, author, and television personality. He is a 1978 graduate of The Culinary Institute of America and a veteran of numerous professional kitchens, including many years as executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles. Although Bourdain is no longer employed as a chef, he maintains a relationship with Les Halles in New York. He became widely known for his 2000 book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. His first food and world-travel television show was...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChef
Date of Birth25 June 1956
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.
Having been a chef for some many years, I understand what it's like to work really, really hard to get good at something, only to have someone piss all over it.
I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.
I'm a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It's funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and the different paths they take.
I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.
Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great.
I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.
If you go to chefs all across America and ask them, 'What's your biggest problem right now?,' It is finding people to cook in their restaurants. They're having an enormous, countrywide problem here staffing their operations.
If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people.
As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business.
There are a lot less restraints on it than there used to be. It comes with a parental warning in the US before each segment. For mature audiences only.
What can I say, I happen to be an aficionado of the dive bar.
There is no script at all for what's said on camera,
It's not as much an expose as it is a memoir, with some things that seem to have shocked and horrified some of the civilian population,