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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I am constantly amazed at not only the number of classes and workshops underway at Read It & Eat Bookshop, but the breadth of the programming. Read It & Eat has turned out to be one of the more ...

Laurie Woolever is thinking about her late friend Anthony Bourdain. At the time, the late chef had been filming his CNN series, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, in France and Woolever recalled the ...

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 ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. During his life, Anthony Bourdain was a constant presence on television screens, known best for his "Parts Unknown" and "No Reservations" ...