Anthony Michael Bourdain was born on 25th June 1956, in New York City, USA, and was a television personality, a chef and author, probably best known for hosting the travel and food shows “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations” (2005 – 2012) and “The Layover” (2011 – 2013) on Travel channel, as well as “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” (2013 – 2018) on CNN. He was the author of the bestseller “Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly” (2000). He passed away in 2018.
Was Anthony Bourdain rich? His net worth was an estimated $9 million, with the main sources of his wealth being cooking and writing, as well as hosting various television shows.
Anthony Bourdain Net Worth $9 Million
Anthony Bourdain was raised in Leonia, New Jersey, and was educated at the Dwight-Englewood School, then in 1973 he entered Vassar College. While studying there he worked at seafood restaurants to discover that his career path was in cooking, so he dropped out of Vassar College and began studying at the Culinary Institute of America. After graduation, he worked in a number of restaurants, starting from positions in the kitchen and eventually working as an executive chef at luxurious restaurants located in Manhattan, Washington D.C., Miami (USA) and Tokyo (Japan). This rise in ability and status assisted his net worth considerably.
As an author, Anthony Bourdain published both fiction and non-fiction books. He debuted with the fiction book “Bone in the Throat” (1995), however, as an author he became particularly well-known after publishing “Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly” in 2000, which was non-fiction and so successful that he was named Food Writer of the Year by Bon Appetit magazine in 2001. Other popular books written by Bourdain are “A Cook’s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal” (2001), “The Nasty Bits” (2006), “No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach” (2007), and “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook” (2010). It is important to mention the fact that the British Guild of Food Writers named “A Cook’s Tour” the Food Book of the Year in 2001. Of course, the success of these publications contributed significantly to his net worth.
Furthermore, Anthony Bourdain’s programs on television received a number of nominations and won awards, too. “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations” (2005 – 2012) was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2007, and the same program won two Creative Arts Emmy Awards for Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming in 2009 and 2011, as well as Critics’ Choice Award for the Best Reality Series in 2012. Another show – “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” (2013 – 2018) – won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Informational Series in 2013 and 2014, as well as a Peabody Award in 2014. All these programs helped Bourdain’s net worth to increase, too.
In culinary society, Bourdain was regarded as a non-traditional personality, presenting a different view of cooking and life in general. Anthony Bourdain was an inductee onto tjhe list of Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America by the James Beard Foundation in 2008. In 2010, an Honorary CLIO Award was given to Bourdain for encouraging people to think differently, and try to change the world.
Anthony Bourdain was married twice; in 1980, he married Nancy Putkoski, but they divorced after spending almost 20 years together. In 2007, he married Ottavia Busia, and with her he fathered a daughter. Anthony died on 7 June 2018, apparently by suicide, while in Strasbourg, France where he was shooting “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown”.
Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Reality Show Host, PGA Producer of the Year Award in Non-Fiction Television, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series Or Special, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Culinary Program, James Beard Foundation Award for Who's Who of Food and Bev...
Nominations
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program, News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-fiction Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing - Nonfiction Programmin...
Movies
Bone in the Throat
TV Shows
The Taste, The Layover, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, A Cook's Tour, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Top Chef, The Mind of a Chef
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Liberal use of swear words and sexual innuendo when describing food
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Vietnam is my favorite destination. The people are wonderful, the food is fantastic, and there is a lot of mystery and beauty surrounding it. You learn something new every time you go there, and I can't say that about other destinations.
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If I had to choose, I'd pick the hole in the wall dump over the gentrified bistro owned by your average pretentious hipster every time.
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If you want to know if a chef has true cooking ability, ask them to make you eggs. That meal will reveal more than anything else.
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I believe taking your child to McDonald's should be considered grounds for having your parental rights revoked.
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As a child growing up in New Jersey, I speak on behalf of every child that ever grew up there in saying that your purpose in life was looking across the bay to New York City and figuring out a way to end up there.
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[about fast food] In-N-Out Burger is my fast food nirvana. It's the only place I will seek out and eat. The rest I avoid.
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I'm pretty sure that every time Guy Fieri puts barbecue pork inside a nori roll, an angel dies.
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Those days are best left in the past. Sometimes I think about the excitement, the energy, the stress that working a kitchen involved, and I remember how young, naive, confident I was back then. The kitchen is at its best when new, cocky, limber, innovative chefs are in control.
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The organic movement has good intentions, but I doubt in the long term that it'll be sustainable. It's helping people learn where their food comes from and being more aware of what junk corporations put into it, and that's good. My daughter has only been given organic and natural foods since she's been born.
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Nobody will tell you this, but I will: If you're thirty-two years old and considering a career in professional kitchens? If you're wondering if, perhaps, you are too old? Let me answer that question for you: Yes. You are too old.
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If you're comforting yourself with the dictum "Never trust a thin chef," don't. Because no stupider thing has ever been said.
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If you're twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel-as far and as widely as possible.
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Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone ... Bad food is fake food ... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives. Food that's too safe, too pasteurized, too healthy - it's bad! There should be some risk, like unpasteurized cheese. Food is about rot, and decay, and fermentation.as much as it is also about freshness.
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Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living
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I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry.
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I have exactly the same work ethic. I don't see writing as anything more important than cooking. In fact, I'm a little queasier on the writing. There's an element of shame, because it's so easy. I can't believe that people give me money for this shit. The TV, too. It's not work. At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It's a gift. A few months ago, I was sitting cross-legged in the mountains of Vietnam with a bunch of Thai tribesman as a guest of honor drinking rice whiskey. Three years ago I never, ever in a million years thought that I would ever live to see any of that. So I know that I'm a lucky man.
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Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself
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When Tony gets hungry, things die.
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He was nominated for the 2016 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts and Letters category.
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His mother was of Ukrainian Jewish and Austrian Jewish descent, and his father was of French ancestry.
As a guest on BBC TV's Breakfast (2000) (2 September 2010), Bourdain surprised hosts Bill Turnbull and Susanna Reid when he disclosed that his all-time favorite restaurant was the British "St. John" run by friend and chef Fergus Henderson in London's Smithfield district.
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He and Ottavia Bourdain welcomed their first child, a girl named Ariane Bourdain, on April 9, 2007. She weighed 7 lbs. 9 oz.
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His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Times, The Observer, Scotland on Sunday, The Face, Limb by Limb, Black Book, and The Independent, and he is a contributing authority for Food Arts magazine.
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He studied at Vassar College, worked for some time in the seafood restaurants of Provincetown, Massachusetts, and graduated from the Culinary Institute of America before running kitchens at New York City's Supper Club, One Fifth Avenue and Sullivan's.
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Les Halles owner Jose Meirelles initially wanted Tony to go by the French version of his name, Antoine-Michel, much to Tony's protests.
TV Series documentary executive producer - 36 episodes
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
2013-2015
TV Series documentary executive producer - 20 episodes
Bone In The Throat
2015
executive producer
The Taste
2013-2015
TV Series executive producer - 15 episodes
The Getaway
2014
TV Series executive producer - 1 episode
The Layover
2011-2013
TV Series documentary executive producer - 13 episodes
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
2011-2012
TV Series documentary executive producer - 18 episodes
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
TV Series documentary 2 episodes, 2013 writer - 18 episodes, 2013 - 2015
Bone In The Throat
2015
based on the book by
The Layover
2011-2013
TV Series documentary 13 episodes
Treme
2011-2012
TV Series story - 4 episodes
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
2009-2012
TV Series documentary 18 episodes
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations Holiday Special
2011
TV Series
Kitchen Confidential
2005-2006
TV Series book - 13 episodes
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Treme
2011
TV Series consultant - 10 episodes
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Big Short
2015
Anthony Bourdain
Sanjay and Craig
2015
TV Series
Anthony Gourmand
Archer
2013
TV Series
Lance Casteau
Yo Gabba Gabba!
2010
TV Series
Dr. Tony
Far Cry
2008
Scientist (uncredited)
Camera Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
2013
TV Series documentary additional camera - 2 episodes
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Kyoto: A Journey Inside
2016
Documentary special thanks
The Sheik
2014
Documentary special thanks
Triple Rush
2011
TV Series additional thanks - 4 episodes
Ratatouille
2007
special thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Last Night at the Carlyle
2017
Documentary post-production
Himself
The Mind of a Chef
2012-2016
TV Series documentary
Himself - Narrator / Narrator
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
2013-2016
TV Series documentary
Himself - Host
Conan
2016
TV Series
Himself - Guest
The Chew
2013-2016
TV Series
Himself - Guest / Himself - The Taste
CBS This Morning
2012-2016
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Chef
Weekend Today
2016
TV Series
Himself
Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent
2016
Documentary
Himself
2016 Creative Arts Emmys
2016
TV Movie
Himself - Nominated: Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming and Winner: Outstanding Informational Series or Special
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2016
TV Series
Himself
Inside Amy Schumer
2016
TV Series
Himself
WGN Morning News
2015
TV Series
Himself
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
TV Series
Himself - Guest
2015 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards
2015
TV Movie
Himself - Winner: Outstanding Informational Series or Special / Nominated: Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming and Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program
Remembering David Carr
2015
Documentary
Himself
New Day
2015
TV Series
Himself - Reporter
The Taste
2013-2015
TV Series
Himself - Host
BELLOmag Presents: A Conversation with the Taste
2015
TV Movie
Himself - Guest
Entertainment Tonight
2014
TV Series
Himself - The Taste
Good Morning America
2013-2014
TV Series
Himself - Guest / Himself - The Taste
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2006-2014
TV Series
Himself - Guest
2014 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards
2014
TV Special
Himself - Winner: Outstanding Informational Series or Special
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
TV Series
Himself
The View
2014
TV Series
Himself
Inside Edition
2013
TV Series documentary
Himself
2013 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards
2013
TV Special
Himself - Winner: Outstanding Informational Series or Special (uncredited)
Piers Morgan Tonight
2012-2013
TV Series
Himself / Guest Host
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2010-2013
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Guest
The Layover
2011-2013
TV Series documentary
Himself - Host
Mankind the Story of All of Us
2012
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - Chef & Writer
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
2005-2012
TV Series documentary
Himself - Host
AMC Mob Week
2012
TV Movie
Himself
Comic Con 2012 Live
2012
TV Movie
Himself
The Daily Show
2012
TV Series
Himself
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations Holiday Special
2011
TV Series
Himself
The Simpsons
2011
TV Series
Himself
Late Show with David Letterman
2005-2011
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Guest
Real Time with Bill Maher
2011
TV Series
Himself - Guest
MasterChef Australia
2011
TV Series
Himself - American Chef and author / Himself - American Chef and Author
Charlie Rose
2011
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Top Chef
2006-2011
TV Series
Himself - Judge / Himself - Guest Judge / Himself / ...
The Hour
2010
TV Series
Himself
Breakfast
2010
TV Series
Himself - Chef
Tavis Smiley
2010
TV Series
Himself
Larry King Live
2010
TV Series
Himself
Katz's: That's All
2010
Documentary
Himself
Life After Dark: The Story of Siberia Bar
2009
Documentary
State by State
2008
Video short
Himself
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
2002-2008
TV Series
Himself
Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern
2007
TV Series
Himself
What's Your Trip
2007
TV Series
Himself - Host
After Hours with Daniel Boulud
2006
TV Series
Himself
Miami Ink
2006
TV Series documentary
Himself - Client
Good Morning Australia
2005
TV Series
Himself
The Truth About Gordon Ramsay
2005
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Christine Cushing Live
2004
TV Series
Himself
Nova
2004
TV Series documentary
Himself
A Cook's Tour
2002-2003
TV Series
Himself - Host / Himself
Molto Mario
2002
TV Series documentary
Himself - Guest
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
2013
Documentary
Himself
Top Chef
2010
TV Series
Himself - Judge
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2016
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Informational Series or Special
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
2016
Critics' Choice TV Award
Critics Choice Television Awards
Best Reality Show Host
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
2015
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Informational Series or Special
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
2014
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Informational Series or Special
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
2014
Daytime Emmy
Daytime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Culinary Program
The Mind of a Chef (2012)
2014
Gold World Medal
New York Festivals
Best Nonfiction Series
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
2014
PGA Award
PGA Awards
Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
2013
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Informational Series or Special
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2016
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
2016
PGA Award
PGA Awards
Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
2015
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program
The Taste (2013)
2015
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
2015
Critics' Choice TV Award
Critics Choice Television Awards
Best Reality Host
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
2015
Daytime Emmy
Daytime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Culinary Program
The Mind of a Chef (2012)
2015
PGA Award
PGA Awards
Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
2014
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program
The Taste (2013)
2014
IDA Award
International Documentary Association
Best Episodic Series
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
2013
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program
The Taste (2013)
2013
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
2013
PGA Award
PGA Awards
Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (2005)
2012
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Nonfiction Series
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (2005)
2012
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (2005)
2011
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (2005)
2011
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Nonfiction Series
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (2005)
2010
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (2005)
Known for movies
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (2005-2012) as Producer
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013-2016) as Producer
A Cook's Tour (2002-2003) as Himself - Host / Himself