Anthony Bourdain is a best-selling author, celebrity chef and television personality. He is the host of the Travel Channel's No Reservations, a food-oriented travelogue, and was the former host the Food Network's A Cook's Tour. He is a recurring guest judge and blogger for Bravo's Top Chef.

Bourdain came to the general public's attention following the publication of his best-selling book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. The book chronicled Bourdain's life as a chef with such establishments as New York's Brasserie Les Halles.

Bourdain began his career as a chef in the seafood restaurants of Provincetown, Massachusetts and graduated in 1978 from the Culinary Institute of America.

• 2000: Kitchen Confidential
• 2001: A Cook's Tour
• 2001: Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical
• 2004: Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook
• 2006: The Nasty Bits
• 2007: No Reservations

• 1995: Bone in the Throat
• 1997: Gone Bamboo
• 2001: Bobby Gold

• Note: Some of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.

• 1956: Born

• 1995: Bone in the Throat

• 1997: Gone Bamboo

• 2000: Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

• 2001: A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines

• 2002: A Cook's Tour

• 2004: Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook

• 2005: Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations

• 2005: Kitchen Confidential

• 2006: The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones