Author, Food Writer, and Host of Carbface for Radio Podcast
Laurie Woolever: Biography at a Glance
- Laurie Woolever is a writer and editor best known as the lieutenant to the late author, TV host, and producer Anthony Bourdain.
- She is the author of multiple New York Times bestselling books, including: World Travel: An Irreverent Guide, co-authored with Anthony Bourdain; and Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography.
- She co-hosts a food-focused podcast, Carbface for Radio, and is working on a book about bread baking with Richard Hart of Hart Bageri in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Woolever has written about food, travel, and wine for the New York Times, Vogue, GQ, Food & Wine, Lucky Peach, Saveur, Bloomberg, Dissent, Roads & Kingdoms, and others.
- Her 2025 memoir, Care and Feeding, is a New York Times bestseller. With stories about Tony Bourdain and Mario Batali, cooking school, addiction and sobriety, grief and acceptance, Woolever takes audiences on a raw journey.
- Woolever is a sought-after storyteller who covers topics from food and travel to culture and lifestyle while sharing experiences from her life and career that have given her a unique perspective.
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Laurie Woolever is a writer and editor, and for nearly a decade, worked as the lieutenant to the late author, TV host, and producer Anthony Bourdain. She is the author of multiple New York Times bestselling books, including: World Travel: An Irreverent Guide, co-authored with Anthony Bourdain; and Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography. She and Bourdain also co-authored Appetites: A Cookbook. All three titles have been translated into a dozen languages. Woolever has written about food, travel, and wine for the New York Times, Vogue, GQ, Food & Wine, Lucky Peach, Saveur, Bloomberg, Dissent, Roads & Kingdoms, and others. Her 2025 memoir, Care and Feeding, is also a New York Times bestseller. With stories about Tony Bourdain and Mario Batali, cooking school, addiction and sobriety, grief and acceptance, Woolever takes audiences on a raw journey.
Woolever is a graduate of Cornell University, where she studied natural resources and creative writing, and then completed the professional training program at the French Culinary Institute, before working as the longtime assistant to chef and restaurateur Mario Batali.
After stints in private cooking, catering, freelance writing, and recipe development, Woolever was an editor at Art Culinaire and Wine Spectator magazines. She has appeared on NPR, CBS, CNN, CBC, The Joe Rogan Experience, and dozens of local news programs and podcasts in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and India. She co-hosts a food-focused podcast, Carbface for Radio, and is currently at work on a book about bread baking, with Richard Hart of Hart Bageri in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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What I Learned From Traveling With Bourdain
Laurie Woolever was lucky enough to accompany Anthony Bourdain, the consummate world traveler, on several far-flung journeys, and will share stories from her visits to Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Okinawa, Tokyo, and Manila, along with valuable lessons that she learned about travel, writing, cooking and life from her time working alongside him.
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