Anthony Bourdain, chef, author, television host and all-around bad boy, will bring his public speaking tour to the State Theatre in Minneapolis on July 24.

Bourdain’s live show is basically him talking to the audience about his travels and his raw, honest views on a variety of subjects. He’s filming the fifth season of CNN’s “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.” He switched to the network after nine seasons of “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations” aired on the Travel Channel.

Besides the tell-all memoir that made him famous, “Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly,” Bourdain has written another memoir, “Medium Raw,” three crime novels, a cookbook, a biography of Typhoid Mary and two graphic novels, including “Get Jiro.” The sequel to that graphic novel, “Get Jiro: Blood and Sushi,” will be published in October.

We got to ask the busy celeb some questions while he was spending a rare few minutes at home in New York City.

How often are you on the road? I travel 225 days of the year, sometimes more. It’s a lot.

Is that tough on your family? My daughter is 8 and just finished the second grade. (Editor’s note: At this point, his daughter, Ariane, interrupts to yell, “Tell her I’m reading the news, and I’m awesome!”)

When she was much younger, she got a lot of travel time in. She spent a lot of time in Italy with her mom’s family there. She has been to tons of places. Now if I take her out of school, she’s missing stuff.

We try to take her places in the summer, at least one time a year. I take her to Grand Cayman to the food and wine festival every year. She gets to play with Eric Ripert’s kids, and all my chef friends bring their kids.

You have your hands in everything — publishing, travel TV, travel writing, the culinary world. Why go on tour? Because it’s terrifying. It’s a rush. I mean, it’s really terrifying to go in front of 200 people and keep them laughing for 90 minutes. You see what they’re responding to … it’s a very different thing than anything else I do.

It started with doing so many book events, and they got bigger and bigger. Suddenly, I was speaking in theaters, doing live shows, it sort of grew out of that. It’s something I really work on now, writing material and practicing and keeping people entertained.

It’s like jumping out of a plane. Or maybe more like downhill ski racing. You can feel great and go speeding downhill too fast … other times you feel terrible and tired and it ends up being the best night ever. You never know how the audience will be, either. Will they be drunk and belligerent, quiet farmers, dirty Mormons? You just never know.

You seem to be taking on more of a journalist’s role in “Parts Unknown.” How is working for CNN different? How has it changed what you do? I think it’s a function of time. At first, we asked simple questions. But over time, people gave us more complicated answers, and we’ve explored that.

CNN has given us license to kill there, certainly more than the Travel Channel and way more than Food Network. There doesn’t have to be food in every scene or any scene for that matter. I get to follow my curiosity.

Look, I come from 30 years of standing on my feet and cooking, so I look at things from that perspective. And that’s a stealthy and effective way to get people to talk about other things, by eating and drinking together.

I do feel free to let the road take me wherever it goes. CNN has given me that. It’s liberating. I’m not just interested in what’s for dinner. I’m interested in why and who made it and why they made it that way. That’s often a painful, interesting story. There’s nothing more political than what people are eating or not eating.

I like to say I travel the world asking really stupid questions of people in hopes of getting enlightening answers.

It seems like the older I get, the more wicked the hangover. I’m watching you throw back shots of vodka like water and wondering what’s your secret? How do you cure a hangover and get back on camera the next day? I suffer. There are the “Did Tony shave?” days. Oh, he definitely did not. I have the luxury of not having to look good on camera. I look pretty horrible most of the time.

I don’t have a miracle hangover cure. If I’m going out with (frequent sidekick) Zamir in Russia, I’m setting aside some recovery time. As you get older, you can’t bounce back the way you used to.

Also, I’m definitely drinking less than I used to. You don’t see that part, because it’s not necessarily on film. I plan. If I’m going out drinking tonight, I’m staying in bed until noon tomorrow, not bungee jumping in the morning.

Will you have time to eat out when you’re here? Not this time. I’m doing a 10-city tour in 10 days. If I get time to get a bowl of pho somewhere, I’ll be very, very happy.

What will be different with the tour this time? It’ll be filthier, more offensive. Let’s say 10 percent more offensive than last time.

Jess Fleming can be reached at 651-228-5435. Follow her at twitter.com/jessflem.