Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Five minutes before her Zoom interview with PEOPLE is scheduled to start, Laurie Woolever is logged on and ready to talk. Her boss ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laurie Woolever, who served as Anthony Bourdain’s assistant for nearly a decade until his tragic passing in 2018, is offering an ...

On a special episode (first released on April 2, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Women in the culinary world have long fought to be heard, respected and given full credit for their contributions. With a ...

Anthony Bourdain’s former assistant and cowriter is revealing the last text sent to her by the beloved chef, author and TV host hours before his 2018 suicide. The “Parts Unknown” host hanged himself ...

Anthony Bourdain's longtime assistant Laurie Woolever worked from home long before the pandemic. Woolever was Bourdain's gatekeeper from 2009 until his death in 2018. Because the Parts Unknown host ...

An upcoming author event that has everyone talking is a visit by Anthony Bourdain collaborator and acclaimed food writer, Laurie Woolever. Woolever will be paying a visit to Read It & Eat on Wednesday ...

For years, Laurie Woolever toiled, partied, and recovered in the New York City restaurant trenches alongside two men with outsized personalities and reputations: Mario Batali and Anthony Bourdain.

In this profane, exhilarating autobiography, Woolever (World Travel)—a former cook and assistant to Anthony Bourdain—takes readers on a ride-along through her turbulent decades in the food industry.

When Anthony Bourdain wanted someone to help him work on a new cookbook, Laurie Woolever picked up a pen and pencil and wrote him a letter expressing her interest. Before she would come to be his ...

The bestselling author was the assistant to some very famous men. Now it's time for her to take center stage.

Five minutes before her Zoom interview with PEOPLE is scheduled to start, Laurie Woolever is logged on and ready to talk. Her boss, the late Anthony Bourdain, was notoriously punctual, and now “if I’m ...