Laurie Woolever is a writer and editor, and spent nearly a decade assisting Anthony Bourdain, with whom she co-authored the cookbook Appetites in 2016. She first worked with Bourdain on his debut cookbook, Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook, for which she was recipe editor and tester. Before publishing Appetites, Woolever was a line editor for various titles published on Bourdain's imprint, Anthony Bourdain Books, at Ecco. She has written about food and travel for the New York Times, GQ, Food & Wine, Lucky Peach, Saveur, Dissent, Roads & Kingdoms, and others, and has worked as an editor at Art Culinaire and Wine Spectator. In April 2021, Woolever co-authored, with Bourdain as posthumous co-author, World Travel: An Irreverent Guide, which was an instant New York Times No. 1 bestseller.
