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Salon: Watching Beirut die. ⇒

   28 July 2006, early evening

"We went to Beirut to film a TV show about the city's newly vibrant culinary and cultural scene. Then the bombs started falling, and we could only stand on the barricades of our hotel balcony and watch it all disappear -- again." It's an excellent article. This link was found via MetaFilter.

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  1. I was just going to say what Weiguo said. I love No Reservations, and I love Anthony Bourdain. Any cooking/travel show that, in the States, has to have a maturity warning before coming back from every commercial break has to be doing something right.

    But he is blunt, insightful, and cool in the way that a chain smoking, adventurous New Yorker can be.

    by Ben on July 28 2006, 11:12 pm   #

  2. Ben, I don’t know if you saw, but Discovery Channel is having a massive sale on DVDs; No Reservations is $5 ($6?) per disc of 2 episodes.

    by Weiguo on July 30 2006, 12:07 am   #

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