Anthony Bourdain is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Kitchen Confidential and Medium Raw; A Cook’s Tour; the collection The Nasty Bits; and the novels Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo, and Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical. He has written for the New York Times and The New Yorker, and he is a contributing authority for Food Arts magazine. He is the host of the popular television shows No Reservations, The Layover, and Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown on CNN, and is featured often on popular food-focused shows such as Top Chef and Chopped. He lives in New York City.