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Chef, author of Kitchen Confidential and host of The Travel Channel's No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain has been dubbed "the bad boy of cuisine" for his rock star look and blunt observations about the world of restaurants, chefs and cooking. Bourdain, the executive chef at New York's famed bistro Les ... (more)Halles, is the author of the bestselling Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, a candid, hysterical, and sometimes shocking portrait of life in restaurant kitchens that has been translated into over 28 languages. His book, A Cook's Tour, published in conjunction with his series on The Food Network, was also a bestseller in the U.S. and the U.K. His other books are Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook, The Nasty Bits and No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach, and illustrated journal of Bourdain's travels. His crime novels include The Bobby Gold Stories and Bone in the Throat.