'This unique oral history builds to a comprehensive portrait and an important biography'
Observer 'Reveals a vulnerable side to the man and adds remarkable depth to his onscreen
persona' Financial Times When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018 fans around the globe came
together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man who had dedicated his life to traveling
nearly everywhere (and eating nearly everything) shedding light on the lives and stories of
others. His impact was outsized and his legacy has only grown since his death. Now for the
first time we have been granted a look into Bourdain's life through the stories and
recollections of his closest friends and colleagues. Laurie Woolever Bourdain's longtime
assistant and confidante interviewed nearly a hundred of the people who shared Tony's
orbit-from members of his kitchen crews to his writing publishing and television partners to
his daughter and his closest friends - in order to piece together a remarkably full vivid and
nuanced vision of Tony's life and work. From his childhood and teenage days to his early years
in New York through the genesis of his game-changing memoir Kitchen Confidential to his
emergence as a writing and television personality and in the words of friends and colleagues
including Eric Ripert José Andrés Nigella Lawson and W. Kamau Bell as well as family
members including his brother and his late mother we see the many sides of Tony - his
motivations his ambivalence his vulnerability his blind spots and his brilliance.
Unparalleled in scope and deeply intimate in its execution with a treasure trove of photos
from Tony's life Bourdain: In Stories is a definitive testament to the life of a remarkable
man in the words of the people who shared his world.
