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Anthony Bourdain was born in New York City in 1956, studied at Vassar College, and graduated from the Culinary Institute of America. His exposé of New York restaurants Don’t Eat Before Reading This was published in The New Yorker in 1999 attracting huge attention in America and the UK and formed the basis of his bestselling book, Kitchen Confidential.
His latest book, Les Halles CookBook is published in October 2004. In it he reveals the hearty delicious recipes of Les Halles and the provocative tricks of the trade that have made him a celebrated name across the globe.
Anthony Bourdain's book A Cook's Tour was published in December 2001 to accompany a 22-part television series in which he traveled the world on an unconventional culinary tour, including sampling the still-beating heart of a live cobra, dining with gangsters in Russia, and returning to his roots in the tiny fishing village of La Teste where he first ate an oyster as a child.
His mystery novels include Bone in the Throat, Gone Bamboo and The Bobby Gold Stories.
Anthony Bourdain has plied his profession on both sides of the Atlantic for over twenty years. Now a resident of New York City, Anthony Bourdain is the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles. He has also written an introduction to the classic Nose to Tail Eating by Fergus Henderson of St John, published by Bloomsbury in September 2004. | 
