Laurie Woolever: Batali, Bourdain, and All the Nuance
Food with Mark Bittman
Sweetness and Light
4.9 • 947 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The writer—and ex-Mario Batali employee and assistant to Anthony Bourdain for a decade—talks to Kate about how (and if) kitchen culture has changed since the early-aughts heydey; why she never felt like a victim; her new memoir, Care and Feeding; and how Anthony Bourdain put people at ease—and why people loved him so much.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to food. I'm Kate Bitman. I hope you've been enjoying the show, and if that's the case, |
| 0:09.1 | you may want to find us online at bitmanproject.com, where we've got more than 1,500 recipes, |
| 0:15.9 | cooking how-toes, essays about how food affects us, Mark's opinions, and a lot more. It's a burgeoning community, |
| 0:24.1 | and if you care about food, I'm fairly certain you'll enjoy the site. |
| 0:45.4 | Rollback is back at ASDA, with thousands of prices rollback across the store and online. |
| 0:50.9 | Including 600 grams of chicken breast fillets was £4.70, now just £4.14. |
| 0:53.7 | And for recipes the whole family will love. |
| 0:56.6 | Like my mouth watering, Italian chicken and auzeo bake. |
| 0:59.2 | Find Joe Wicks meal picks at ASDA.com. |
| 1:01.7 | Helping you make your midweek meals for less. |
| 1:03.0 | That's ASDA price. |
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| 1:06.3 | Offer ends 26 of Feb. |
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| 1:25.8 | I'm one of those rare people who have never read Kitchen Confidential or watched Anthony Bourdain's shows, |
| 1:29.0 | but it's certainly obvious that he was an extremely intelligent, dynamic, thoughtful person, and the way the food community has honored him in the |
| 1:34.6 | years since his death has been really touching. Our guest today, Lori Wollever, was Bourdain's |
| 1:41.7 | assistant for nearly a decade. She was his assistant at the time of his death. |
| 1:46.7 | Before that, she worked a series of other jobs, some food-related, some not, including as an assistant |
| 1:53.1 | to Mario Batauli. Her new book, Care and Feeding, is a memoir, and though the parts that are |
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