Anthony Bourdain In Beirut on Travel Channel

Bourdain discusses his experiences in Beirut.

My husband and I have been to Lebanon 4 times together. We did not go last year or this year, because of the unsettled issues.

But last night we were teary eyed watching this silly cooking show. A chef travels around the world and discovers foods from different cultures. This episode was Beirut. When he arrived in Beirut, the fighting broke out, but he made that experience into his show.

My favorite part was when he cooked at the hotel he was evacuated to. I've been to that hotel, we met & saw Amani's show there. She doesn't live far from it.

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It captured better than any news program the reality of the people who live in Lebanon.

One thing I found irritating, as the jets flew over bombing, he never identifies them as Israeli. But we knew it. Bombing the road to the casino, the airport and the communication antenna of LBC (a Christian Television station) All to push the beautiful face of Lebanon into the dirt, because those targets were all very far North away from the border where the fighting broke out.

Here's a clip from the show:

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