Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps Anthony Bourdain’s “Lieutenant”, Laurie Woolever
Anthony Bourdain was Josh's hero. Laurie Woolever was, as Bourdain called her, his "lieutenant".
A writer and culinary graduate, Laurie had worked for another gigantic cooking celebrity, Mario Batali, before he was brought down for alleged sexual harrassment.
She spent almost ten years as Bourdain's right-hand-gal. The two of them wrote two books together, one of which they were halfway through when Bourdain died by suicide in 2018. Laurie posthumously published "Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography".
Josh asks Laurie about her life with Bourdain, his struggles, her addiction, his death, and whether his romanticism and hedonism brought him down. Laurie's new memoir is called "Care and Feeding".
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