COOPER: This Sunday, Anthony Bourdain presents the CNN film, "Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent", he's held as America's first celebrity chef, accredited as the founding father of American cuisines. Though many folks might not have heard of him, I recently spoke with Bourdain about the film. Take a look.</s>COOPER: This is such a fascinating story because Jeremiah Tower pioneered a lot of the dishes that you've been cooking over the years but you didn't really know that they came from him.</s>ANTHONY BOURDAIN, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, "JEREMIAH TOWER: THE LAST MAGNIFICENT": Exactly. Jeremiah was maybe the Chuck Barry of American cooking. He absolutely changed the landscape. Not just the recipes, the dishes. He changed what dinning rooms look like, the mix of high and low, you know, villains and the celebrities, the open kitchen is largely his invention. The entire American regional menu, before him menus were written in French or they certainly didn't celebrate American ingredients and American sources, American whines. And maybe most importantly, he was the first celebrity chef. The first chef --</s>COOPER: The first one.</s>BOURDAIN: The first American chef who customers not only wanted to see in the dinning room but insisted on seeing him in the dinning room. They want to hear from him.</s>COOPER: So why isn't he more well-known?</s>BOURDAIN: It's a really good question. Because at what seemed to be the height of his success he disappeared and because he disappeared, off to Mexico and other places around the world, he was largely written out of history, disgracefully, I think, by journalist who knew his importance, but since he wasn't around anymore it became more convenient for them to let others tell the story.</s>COOPER: Well, this Sunday, Anthony Bourdain present "Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent" at 9:00 p.m. here on CNN.
"Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent" Airs Sunday 9PM.