As one of the world ’s most famous chefs and television personalities , Anthony Bourdain lives out much of his living in front of the tv camera . But there ’s still plenty you might not know about everyone ’s preferent unsound boy chef .
1. HE GREW UP WANTING TO BE A COMIC BOOK ARTIST.
“ Until I was in my mid - teens , I wanted to be a mirthful book artist , ” Bourdain toldUS Weekly . “ I can pull back somewhat well . ” Though his career eventually took him down the culinary route rather , in 2012 Bourdain returned to his comic book solution when he co - wrote ( with Joel Rose ) the computer graphic novelGet Jiro!for DC Comics . The comic book , whichBourdain described as“set in nigh - future tense L.A. , where warring kinship group of chef with differing ideologies butcher each other in the streets , ” rose to the top billet on theNew York Timesbestseller list .
2. A CHILDHOOD VACATION TO FRANCE IGNITED HIS LOVE OF FOOD.
In Bourdain ’s bestselling book , Kitchen Confidential , he shared that it was during a childhood head trip to France that he first go down in erotic love with food for thought . He recall how their neighbour , an oyster fisherman name Monsieur Saint - Jour , invited his family out on his boat , and invited the menage to partake in in some sweet oysters . “ I , in the lofty moment of my young lifetime , stood up cleverly , grinning with rebelliousness , and volunteer to be the first,”Bourdain wrote . “ I took it in my hand , tilted the case back into my oral fissure as instruct by the by now transmit Monsieur Saint - Jour , and with one bite and a slurp , wolf down it down . It tasted of saltwater … of brine and flesh … and somehow … of the future tense . ”
3. HE GOT HIS START AS A DISHWASHER.
In a 2014 episode ofParts Unknown , Bourdain give a visit to Provincetown , Mass. , a midget town at the lead of Cape Cod , and the place where he decided to pursue a calling in cooking . But Bourdain ’s first stop was n’t behind the line ; it was tolerate over a sink full of dirty kitty and goat god at the legendary Lobster Pot restaurant . “ Many of the old places and people now are gone,”Bourdain state , “ but the Lobster Pot is still going substantial all these years later … My Quaker worked in the kitchen , starting the tradition . The cooking study was imposing toil . At that point , I never intended a career as a chef . ”
4. HE MADE HIS TELEVISION DEBUT ONMOLTO MARIO.
Long before he was a television personality in his own right hand , Bourdain made his modest screen introduction playing dinner Edgar Guest to fellow celebrity chef Mario Batali . Bourdain was one of three Guest on a 2002 episode of the series … and did not speak the intact clock time .
5. HE HELPED LAUNCH BRADLEY COOPER’S CAREER.
In 2005 , Bourdain ’s bookKitchen Confidentialwasadapted into a television seriesabout “ a bad - male child chef ” named Jack Bourdain who “ operate wild in his New York City eatery . ” Bradley Cooper played the chef , who was based on Bourdain . And while the serial publication only hold up a yr , it facilitate acquaint Cooper to the masses .
6. HE WAS A WRITER ONTREME.
In 2011 Bourdain added yet another fizgig to his growing resume when he signed on to become a staff author for David Simon and Eric Overmyer ’s post - Katrina New Orleans - set series , Treme . Bourdain was responsible for the series ’ restaurant - centric storylines , which often let in cameos from veridical - life renown chefs such as Emeril Lagasse , Eric Ripert , and Tom Colicchio . “ I ’ve said many times , and think it absolutely , thatThe Wirewas the single greatest achievement of the television medium,”Bourdain saidat the sentence . “ So when abruptly I get a telephone set call from David Simon inviting me to lunch and asking me if I ’d be interested in working on [ Treme ] , it really was like being a lifelong Yankees fan and having Joe DiMaggio call up and say , ‘ How about we shed the ball around in the back yard . ’ It was really that out of the blue air , that seismic of an outcome for me . ”
7. ONE OF THE MOST DISGUSTING THINGS HE HAS EVER EATEN IS A CHICKEN MCNUGGET.
Though he ’s indulged in his middling ploughshare of none - too - appetizing - sounding discreetness ( gently grill warthog rectum anyone ? ) , Bourdain take that the Chicken McNugget is one of his most stomach - churning foods . “ Given the choice between reliving the warthog experience and eating a McNugget , I ’m surely eat up the McNugget , ” hetold The AV Club . “ But at least I roll in the hay what the warthog was . Whereas with the McNugget , I think that ’s still an open question . Scientists are still wondering . ”
