Anthony Bourdain was the author of the New York Times bestsellers Kitchen Confidential, Medium Raw, and Appetites, as well as the novels Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo, the biography A Cook's Tour, and the memoir A Cook's Tour. The New York Times and The New Yorker published his writing. He was the host of No Reservations and Parts Unknown, two successful television programmes. Bourdain passed away in June of this year.