Bourdain gained popularity from either his New York Times bestselling book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. Anthony Bourdain is somewhat of the legend in the working class of cooks. Kitchen Confidential exposes a darker side of the culinary globe. Bourdain has written more books including Never to return Bamboo, Bone in the Throat, Typhoid Mary (An Urban Historical), ''Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook, & A Cook's Tour which was made in conjunction with a TV series on the Food Network. Around July of 2005, Anthony Bourdain: There is no Reservations premiered on the Travel Channel. He is executive chef at Les Halles, the French bistro around New York City.

Among his numbers of epicurean feat, Bourdawitharound is famed for ingesting lamb testis in Northward Africa, ant eggs in Mexico, & a all cobra--beating heart, blood, gall & meat--within Vietnam.

In September 19, 2005, the sitcom adaptation of Kitchen Confidential premiered on the FOX Network. A character Jack Bourdain'' is depending loosely on the life & persona of Anthony Bourdain.