Anthony Michael Bourdain was born on 25th June 1956, in New York City, USA, and was a television personality, a chef and author, probably best known for hosting the travel and food shows “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations” (2005 – 2012) and “The Layover” (2011 – 2013) on Travel channel, as well as “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” (2013 – 2018) on CNN. He was the author of the bestseller “Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly” (2000). He passed away in 2018.
Was Anthony Bourdain rich? His net worth was an estimated $9 million, with the main sources of his wealth being cooking and writing, as well as hosting various television shows.
Anthony Bourdain Net Worth $9 Million
Anthony Bourdain was raised in Leonia, New Jersey, and was educated at the Dwight-Englewood School, then in 1973 he entered Vassar College. While studying there he worked at seafood restaurants to discover that his career path was in cooking, so he dropped out of Vassar College and began studying at the Culinary Institute of America. After graduation, he worked in a number of restaurants, starting from positions in the kitchen and eventually working as an executive chef at luxurious restaurants located in Manhattan, Washington D.C., Miami (USA) and Tokyo (Japan). This rise in ability and status assisted his net worth considerably.
As an author, Anthony Bourdain published both fiction and non-fiction books. He debuted with the fiction book “Bone in the Throat” (1995), however, as an author he became particularly well-known after publishing “Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly” in 2000, which was non-fiction and so successful that he was named Food Writer of the Year by Bon Appetit magazine in 2001. Other popular books written by Bourdain are “A Cook’s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal” (2001), “The Nasty Bits” (2006), “No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach” (2007), and “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook” (2010). It is important to mention the fact that the British Guild of Food Writers named “A Cook’s Tour” the Food Book of the Year in 2001. Of course, the success of these publications contributed significantly to his net worth.
Furthermore, Anthony Bourdain’s programs on television received a number of nominations and won awards, too. “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations” (2005 – 2012) was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2007, and the same program won two Creative Arts Emmy Awards for Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming in 2009 and 2011, as well as Critics’ Choice Award for the Best Reality Series in 2012. Another show – “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” (2013 – 2018) – won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Informational Series in 2013 and 2014, as well as a Peabody Award in 2014. All these programs helped Bourdain’s net worth to increase, too.
In culinary society, Bourdain was regarded as a non-traditional personality, presenting a different view of cooking and life in general. Anthony Bourdain was an inductee onto tjhe list of Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America by the James Beard Foundation in 2008. In 2010, an Honorary CLIO Award was given to Bourdain for encouraging people to think differently, and try to change the world.
Anthony Bourdain was married twice; in 1980, he married Nancy Putkoski, but they divorced after spending almost 20 years together. In 2007, he married Ottavia Busia, and with her he fathered a daughter. Anthony died on 7 June 2018, apparently by suicide, while in Strasbourg, France where he was shooting “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown”.
