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Laurie Woolever, best-selling author of “Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography,” is back with a new memoir. It's all on The Excerpt.

As a right-hand to Anthony Bourdain and Mario Batali, Laurie Woolever navigated high-heat kitchens and addiction. Her new memoir, “Care and Feeding,” unpacks it all.

Anthony Bourdain and Mario Batali’s assistant Laurie Woolever tells all, in a moving memoir of her own By Kara Baskin Globe Correspondent,Updated March 18, 2025, 10:00 a.m.

Laurie Woolever is a writer and editor. She spent nearly a decade assisting Anthony Bourdain, with whom she co-authored Appetites: A Cookbook and World Travel, both New York Times best sellers.

We spoke to Laurie Woolever about her new memoir ‘Care and Feeding,’ which chronicles her years as Mario Batali’s and then Anthony Bourdain’s assistant and her struggle with addiction.

The first, “Care and Feeding” by Laurie Woolever, is an intimate dispatch from an inside player. Woolever was both Batali’s assistant and, from 2009, Anthony Bourdain’s, until the latter ...