If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

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.