What is Laurie Woolever's highest-rated book?

According to our reviews, "Appetites: A Cookbook by Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever" is Laurie Woolever's highest-rated book with a rating of 4.0/5 stars.

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We have reviewed 1 book by Laurie Woolever.

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Laurie Woolever's books span genres including Cooking & Food.

Laurie Woolever - Author Profile

Laurie Woolever

Laurie Woolever is a writer, editor, public speaker, and former cook. A graduate of Cornell University and the French Culinary Institute, she spent nearly a decade as assistant to Anthony Bourdain, with whom she co-authored the cookbooks Appetites and World Travel. She is the New York Times bestselling author of Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography and the memoir Care and Feeding, and has written for the New York Times, GQ, Food & Wine, Vogue, and Rolling Stone.

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Appetites: A Cookbook by Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever

4.8/5

Co-authored by Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever and published by Ecco in October 2016, Appetites is a tightly curated cookbook that distils more than forty years of professional cooking and global travel into a personal repertoire of dishes Bourdain believed every home cook should master. This review assesses the book's content, structure, and reception from published sources — not a kitchen test.

Reviewed Mar 19, 2026

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