Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain, who died in 2018, was the host of “Parts Unknown.” His books include “ Kitchen Confidential ” and, with Laurie Woolever, “ World Travel,” which was published this year.
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From 2000: “The people who will be coming tonight and tomorrow night to Les Halles, a restaurant on Park Avenue South where I work as the chef, aren’t like the people who come during the week,” Anthony Bourdain writes.
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The late chef’s 1999 essay about working in Manhattan restaurants. “Gastronomy is the science of pain,” he writes. “It was the unsavory side of professional cooking that attracted me to it in the first place.”