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Anthony Bourdain

1956 - 2018

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Anthony Michael Bourdain (; June 25, 1956 – June 8, 2018) was an American celebrity chef, author, and travel documentarian. He starred in programs focusing on the exploration of international culture, cuisine, and the human condition. Bourdain was a 1978 graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and a veteran of many professional kitchens during his career, which included several years spent as an executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in Manhattan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anthony Bourdain has received more than 36,303,078 page views. His biography is available in 84 different languages on Wikipedia. Anthony Bourdain is the 1,321st most popular writer (down from 1,238th in 2019), the 1,589th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,561st in 2019) and the 147th most popular American Writer.

Anthony Bourdain is an American chef, author, and television personality. He is best known for his memoir Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, which was a New York Times bestseller.

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  • 36M

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  • 59.62

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  • 84

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 7.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Kitchen Confidential
Cooks, Cocineros, History
2000
The Nasty Bits
Cookery, Anecdotes, Cooking
2006
Typhoid Mary
Quarantine, Typhoid fever, History
2001
Bone in the throat
Fiction, Cooks, Mafia
All is not well at the Dreadnought Grill...the chef has a smack habit, the owner has been set up by the FBI and in the midst of this, the sous-chef Tommy is just trying to do his job. As depraved as it is hilarious, Anthony Bourdain's first novel is street smart and spiced with drugged-up savvy, foul-mouthed feds and salty mob speak. With a cast of unforgettables like the hitman who covers himself in clingfilm to avoid leaving fingerprints and a plot with more twists than a plate of spaghetti, Bone in the Throat rocks through the streets of Manhattan at a blistering pace.
1995
Gone bamboo
Fiction, Assassins, Assassins in fiction
Welcome to the retirement home of Henry and Frances, ex-New Yorkers and professional assassins. A luxury hotel suite in an idyllic, tequila-drenched Caribbean hideaway. It's supposed to be all cocktails and sex on the beach. But when a job icing a Mafioso godfather goes awry, trouble hits paradise...in the form of a cross-dressing capo, a debauched Irish hard man and a slew of incompetent but vicious US marshals.
1997
A Cook's Tour
Food, Cookery, Cookbooks
2001
Gone bamboo
Fiction, Assassins, Assassins in fiction
Welcome to the retirement home of Henry and Frances, ex-New Yorkers and professional assassins. A luxury hotel suite in an idyllic, tequila-drenched Caribbean hideaway. It's supposed to be all cocktails and sex on the beach. But when a job icing a Mafioso godfather goes awry, trouble hits paradise...in the form of a cross-dressing capo, a debauched Irish hard man and a slew of incompetent but vicious US marshals.
1997
Bone in the throat
Fiction, Cooks, Mafia
All is not well at the Dreadnought Grill...the chef has a smack habit, the owner has been set up by the FBI and in the midst of this, the sous-chef Tommy is just trying to do his job. As depraved as it is hilarious, Anthony Bourdain's first novel is street smart and spiced with drugged-up savvy, foul-mouthed feds and salty mob speak. With a cast of unforgettables like the hitman who covers himself in clingfilm to avoid leaving fingerprints and a plot with more twists than a plate of spaghetti, Bone in the Throat rocks through the streets of Manhattan at a blistering pace.
1995
A Cook's Tour
Food, Cookery, Cookbooks
2001
World Travel
nyt:advice-how-to-and-miscellaneous=2021-05-09, New York Times bestseller, Cooks, biography
2020
Kitchen Confidential
Cooks, Cocineros, History
A celebrity chef shares anecdotes of his experience in the restaurant industry, and of his journey from dishwasher to a position of fame in the food industry.
2000
Bobby Gold
Fiction, Gangsters, Women cooks
Ten slices from the life of Bobby Gold; by night, the security chief of a mobbed-up New York City nightclub, by day, a reluctant bonebreaker and enforcer for Eddie Fish - his old college roommate, and best friend. Emerging from the "gladiator school" environment of an upstate prison with an imposing physique and a reputation for skilled brutality, Bobby's a lonely, guilt-ridden child inside a hulking body. He views the grim work of coercion, assault and even murder as jobs to be done with a craftsman's work ethic and with a minimum of force. However, the technician's pride in a job done well is failing him, his friend and protector Eddie is getting flakier and flakier and worst of all, he's falling in love with Nicole, a reckless and self-destructive female line-cook who"s been around the block a few times. Following on from his two superb novels, Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo, Anthony Bourdain has produced another stunning book of crime fiction.
2001

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anthony Bourdain ranks 1,321 out of 7,302. Before him are Ubertino of Casale, Sadegh Hedayat, Rasul Gamzatov, Zachris Topelius, Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, and Khaqani. After him are Lee Child, Khaled Hosseini, Antoine-Henri Jomini, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Blaise de Vigenère, and Odo of Cluny.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Anthony Bourdain ranks 50. Before him are Danny Boyle, Larry Bird, Steve Harris, Min Aung Hlaing, Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, and Guido van Rossum. After him are Ian Curtis, Bakir Izetbegović, Michael Biehn, Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, Joe Satriani, and David Sassoli. Among people deceased in 2018, Anthony Bourdain ranks 68. Before him are Aaron Klug, Alan Bean, Claude Lanzmann, Sondra Locke, Dolores O'Riordan, and Thomas A. Steitz. After him are Steve Ditko, Christine Nöstlinger, Quini, Thorvald Stoltenberg, Girma Wolde-Giorgis, and Efraín Ríos Montt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Anthony Bourdain ranks 1,589 out of 20,380. Before him are Roger B. Chaffee (1935), John Robert Schrieffer (1931), Asa Griggs Candler (1851), Brad Dourif (1950), Stan Smith (1946), and Ma Barker (1873). After him are Sojourner Truth (1797), Henry L. Stimson (1867), Barbara Bach (1947), Marilyn Manson (1969), Louise Brooks (1906), and Jeffrey DeMunn (1947).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Anthony Bourdain ranks 147. Before him are James Brendan Connolly (1868), Poul Anderson (1926), Danielle Steel (1947), Eleanor H. Porter (1868), Ken Kesey (1935), and Hunter S. Thompson (1937). After him are Maria Shriver (1955), Jean M. Auel (1936), Thornton Wilder (1897), Diana Gabaldon (1952), Rex Stout (1886), and Robert Wilson (1941).

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