30 Photos Of Anthony Bourdain That Prove He's Always Been A Badass
The man behind Kitchen Confidential, Parts Unknown, and the long line outside that restaurant you've been meaning to try has been flexing his influence for nearly two decades.
Anthony Bourdain's career began in the kitchen. He worked in New York's restaurant world for more than 20 years, starting in 1978 and culminating with his appointment to executive chef of the French restaurant Les Halles. His life as an author, TV personality, producer, and more, didn't begin until the early 2000s. Here's a look at that portion of Bourdain's career.
Bourdain outside New York's Les Halles restaurant on May 15, 2000, two years after he became executive chef at the French bistro. In 2000, Bourdain's memoir, Kitchen Confidential, was published. It became a bestseller and launched him into the spotlight.
Two years after the publication of Kitchen Confidential, Bourdain became host of the Food Network show A Cook's Tour, which aired from 2002 to 2003. Here, as part of the series, Bourdain meets Solly Stern, owner of Max & Son Meat Market, in Kensington Market, Toronto on April 2, 2002.
Bourdain waits for his first sample of Canadian cheese in Mendels Creamery in Toronto on April 2, 2002.
Bourdain does a cooking demonstration at the South Beach Food and Wine Festival on February 26, 2005.
In 2005, Fox picked up a scripted series based on Kitchen Confidential, featuring a chef named Jack Bourdain. The showed aired for only four episodes in the fall of 2005 before it was canceled. Here, Bourdain poses in a kitchen in Sydney, Australia on March 17, 2005.
Bourdain and Marcus Samuelsson, the chef behind Harlem's Red Rooster, pose for a picture during a Food & Wine magazine event in New York on March 29, 2005.
Bourdain at the Food & Wine event on March 29, 2005.
Also in 2005, No Reservations featuring Bourdain as globetrotting host debuted on the Travel Channel. Here, Bourdain attends a panel discussion on July 16, 2005 in Beverly Hills.
Bourdain smokes a cigarette at the Municipal Market in Sao Paulo, Brazil on January, 31, 2007.
No Reservations ran on the Travel Channel from 2005 to 2012 and solidified Bourdain as a star. Here, he visits the Late Show with David Letterman in New York on March 24, 2008.
A spinoff to No Reservations called The Layover ran on the Travel Channel from 2011 to 2013. In that show, Bourdain visited a city for 24 to 48 hours. Here, Bourdain stops by Jimmy Kimmel Live on September 26, 2013.
In 2013, Bourdain moved to CNN to host Parts Unknown, a travel show that focuses on food, culture, and politics. That show is still on the air. Here, Bourdain attends the Emmy Awards in L.A. on September 15, 2013. He's won four Emmy awards for Parts Unknown.
In 2013, Bourdain was producer and judge on the ABC cooking competition The Taste. Here, he films an episode of The Taste on September 24, 2013.
Bourdain speaks onstage at the KitchenAid demonstration during the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival on February 22, 2014 in Miami Beach.
Bourdain attends Jimmy Kimmel Live on September 23, 2014.
Bourdain films an episode of The Taste on September 25, 2014.
In 2015, Bourdain began a live-speaking tour, called the Close to the Bone Tour. Here, he speaks at the Auditorium Theatre on July 30, 2015 in Chicago.
Book publisher HarperCollins gave Bourdain his own imprint in 2011, called Anthony Bourdain Books, which sought to publish three to five titles per year. Here, he attends the 2015 Center For Fiction Benefit & Awards at The Metropolitan Club on December 8, 2015 in New York.
Bourdain has helped produce two movies, Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent and Wasted! The Story of Food Waste. Here, he speaks at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas on March 13, 2016.
During an episode of Parts Unknown filmed in Vietnam, Bourdain ate a meal with then-President Barack Obama on May 23, 2016.
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