Laurie Woolever is a writer and editor, and was, for nearly a decade, the right-hander to author, TV host and producer Anthony Bourdain, with whom she co-authored a cookbook, Appetites, in 2016. She’s written about food and travel for the New York Times, GQ, Food & Wine, Lucky Peach, Saveur, Dissent, Roads & Kingdoms, and others.

A graduate of Cornell University and the French Culinary Institute (now known as the International Culinary Center), Woolever has worked as a private cook, caterer, copywriter, farm hand, video store clerk and an editor at Art Culinaire and Wine Spectator. She will publish World Travel: An Irreverent Guide, a book co-authored with Bourdain, in fall 2020, and is currently at work on an oral biography of his life.