Laurie Woolever Interview, Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography, Movers Shakers
In todays episode I have the pleasure of interviewing Laurie Woolever, author of Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography. Laurie shares how she first met Bourdain, and how he hired her to help with recipe editing and testing for his first cookbook, Anthony Bourdains Le Halles Cookbook. She sheds light on what it was like to work with him, his personality, and what shed do differently if she could go back and do it all over again. We discuss: How Bourdain was a gifted writer who was very good at reading people and understanding what would motivate themwhether it was harsh feedback or a gentle touch The parts of Bourdains career that seemed to make him the happiest and most proud Lauries observations on the cynical part coming out of Bourdains personality he was deeply cynical about humanity, the human condition, how we treat each other, and how much government can help people, she saysand yet, he was also always looking for hope. How his traveling took a physica
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