Anthony Bourdain perhaps more than anyone else on earth can lay claim to the invention of the ‘celebrity chef’. In this Sydney Writers’ Festival 2011 session he tells Jill Dupleix about his noholdsbarred journey into the culinary underworld.

Anthony Bourdain is the author of the megabestsellers ‘Kitchen Confidential’, ‘A Cook’s Tour’, ‘Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook’ and ‘Medium Raw’. His writing has appeared in ‘The Times’, ‘The New York Times’, ‘The Observer’, ‘The Face’, and ‘Scotland on Sunday’. He is an ongoing contributor and authority for ‘Food Arts’ magazine. He is also the host of the Emmy Awardwinning television show ‘No Reservations’.