The Best Writers In The Kitchen - September 2022

Anthony Bourdain

Chef, author, and raconteur Anthony Bourdain is famous for traveling the globe series Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown. Somewhat notoriously, he has established herself as a specialist gadfly, bêurge, te noir, social critic, and pork buff, recognized for his sense of humor. As he's evangelical about his passions, he is as unsparing of these things he hates.

Bourdain is the author of this New York Times bestselling Kitchen Confidential and Medium Raw; A Cook’s Tour; the collection The Terrible Bits; the novels Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo; the biography Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical; 2 picture books, Get Jiro! And Get Jiro! : his latest New York Times bestselling cookbook and Sushi along with Blood Appetites. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Times of London, Bon Appetit, Gourmet, Vanity Fair, Lucky Peach and many other publications. In 2013, Bourdain found his own publishing with Ecco, Anthony Bourdain Books. He is the host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning docuseries Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown on CNN, and before that hosted The Layover on Travel Channel along with Emmy, along with The Taste on ABC.

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Laurie Colwin

Laurie Colwin (1944–1992) was born in Manhattan and raised in Lake Ronkonkoma, Long Island; Chicago; and Philadelphia. She attended Bard College and Columbia University and worked before purchasing her narrative, at the age of twenty-five, to the New Yorker. She went on to publish eight critically acclaimed works of fiction along with two collections of recipes and essays & #x2014; Home Cooking and More Home Cooking & #x2014; in addition to writing a food column for Gourmet magazine and donating to Redbook and Mademoiselle. As stated by the San Francisco Chronicle, “if anyone wrote magnificently and eloquently it was Laurie Colwin. ”

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