If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

Bourdain appeared in an episode of TLC's reality show Miami Ink which aired August 28 2006. and Tokyo Japan. "


Public persona

Because of Bourdain's liberal use of profanity and sexual.

A 1978 graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and a veteran of numerous professional kitchens Bourdain was a chef-at-large whose home base was Brasserie Les Halles New York. He is well known for his 2000 book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly and is the host of Travel Channel's culinary and cultural adventure programs Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations and The Layover. Anthony Michael "Tony" Bourdain (born June 25 1956) is an American chef author and television personality.