Laurie Woolever was chef Mario Batali’s assistant at a time when his hit restaurant Babbo was attracting celebrity diners vying for reservations. Then she spent almost a decade working for Anthony Bourdain. Woolever made haircut appointments for the TV host in New York and she found places in Singapore or Mumbai where Bourdain could practice Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu when he was on the road filming his long-running TV show Parts Unknown. She also co-wrote the cookbook Appetites with Bourdain. After the shocking phone call in 2018 letting her know that her boss had taken his own life, Woolever felt lost. She wound up changing her own life. She no longer drinks alcohol or takes drugs and in Woolever’s memoir Care and Feeding, she talks a lot about the influence of the two celebrity chefs who came to dominate her life.