Laurie Woolever

Laurie Woolever is a writer and editor, and spent nearly a decade assisting Anthony Bourdain, with whom she co-authored the cookbook Appetites in 2016. She first worked with Bourdain on his debut cookbook, Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook , for which she was recipe editor and tester. Before publishing Appetites , Woolever was a line editor for various titles published on Bourdain's imprint, Anthony Bourdain Books, at Ecco. She has written about food and travel for the New York Times , GQ ...See more

Laurie Woolever is a writer and editor, and spent nearly a decade assisting Anthony Bourdain, with whom she co-authored the cookbook Appetites in 2016. She first worked with Bourdain on his debut cookbook, Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook , for which she was recipe editor and tester. Before publishing Appetites , Woolever was a line editor for various titles published on Bourdain's imprint, Anthony Bourdain Books, at Ecco. She has written about food and travel for the New York Times , GQ , Food & Wine , Lucky Peach , Saveur , Dissent , Roads & Kingdoms , and others, and has worked as an editor at Art Culinaire and Wine Spectator . In April 2021, Woolever co-authored, with Bourdain as posthumous co-author, World Travel: An Irreverent Guide , which was an instant New York Times No. 1 bestseller. See less