Chef and author Anthony Bourdain wrote the New York Times bestselling memoirs Kitchen Confidential, Medium Raw, and A Cook's Tour; the collection The Nasty Bits; the novels Bone in the Throat, The Bobby Gold Stories, and Gone Bamboo; the biography Typhoid Mary; and the cookbooks Appetites and Les Halles Cookbook. A thirty-year veteran of professional kitchens, he was the host of No Reservations on the Travel Channel and Parts Unknown on CNN, and was the executive chef at Les Halles in Manhattan.