Laurie Woolever is a writer and editor, and spent close to a decade assisting Anthony Bourdain, with whom she co-authored Appetites: A Cookbook and World Travel: An Irreverent Guide. She has written about food and travel for the New York Times, GQ, Food & Wine, Lucky Peach, Saveur, Dissent and Roads & Kingdoms, among others, and has worked as an editor at Art Culinaire and Wine Spectator.