Laurie Woolever
Laurie Woolever is an American writer and editor living in New York. Her most recent book is Care and Feeding: A Memoir
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Laurie Woolever
Laurie Woolever is a writer, editor, public speaker, and former cook. For nearly a decade, she worked as the lieutenant to the late author, TV host and producer Anthony Bourdain. Her memoir, Care and Feeding, was published in March 2025 and was an instant New York Times bestseller.
Woolever was an editor at Art Culinaire and Wine Spectator magazines, and has written about food, travel, television and more for The New York Times, Vogue, GQ, Rolling Stone, Food & Wine, Lucky Peach, Saveur, Dissent, Roads & Kingdoms, and others. She has contributed to and co-authored a number of books, including Appetites: A Cookbook and World Travel, both with Anthony Bourdain, and the James Beard Award-winning Richard Hart Bread, with British baker Richard Hart.
Woolever is a graduate of Cornell University and the French Culinary Institute in New York. She lives in New York with her son and her cat.
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Truth, Food and Memory: Kate Reid and Laurie Woolever
DATE March 28 TIME 1:00 pm WHEREConcert Hall Newcastle City Hall Book nowCare and Feeding: Laurie Woolever in Conversation
DATE March 29 TIME 2:30 pm WHEREHunter Room Newcastle City Hall Book nowBY THE ARTIST
