Laurie Woolever is a writer and editor, and for nearly a decade, worked as the lieutenant to the late author, TV host, and producer Anthony Bourdain. She is the author of two New York Times best-selling books: World Travel: An Irreverent Guide, co-authored with Anthony Bourdain; and Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography. She and Bourdain also co-authored Appetites: A Cookbook. All three titles have been translated into a dozen languages. Woolever has written about food, travel, and wine for the New York Times, Vogue, GQ, Food & Wine, Lucky Peach, Saveur, Bloomberg, Dissent, Roads & Kingdoms, and others.

Woolever is a graduate of Cornell University, where she studied natural resources and creative writing, and then completed the professional training program at the French Culinary Institute, before working as the longtime assistant to chef and restaurateur Mario Batali.

After stints in private cooking, catering, freelance writing, and recipe development, Woolever was an editor at Art Culinaire and Wine Spectator magazines. She has appeared on NPR, CBS, CNN, CBC, The Joe Rogan Experience, and dozens of local news programs and podcasts in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and India. She co-hosts a food-focused podcast, Carbface for Radio, and is currently at work on a book about bread baking, with Richard Hart of Hart Bageri in Copenhagen, Denmark.