Anthony Bourdain is an American chef, author, and television personality. He is known for his 2000 book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, and in 2005 he began hosting the Travel Channel’s culinary and cultural adventure programs Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations and The Layover. In 2013, he joined CNN to host Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.
Bourdain’s wife. Ottavia is an active blue belt BJJ competitor. Last year, she convinced him to start training at Renzo Gracie academy in New York.
Bourdain talked talks to Charlie Rose about his new enthusiasm for jiu jitsu, and why he finds learning an entirely new skill as satisfying as working in a kitchen for the first time:
