O shit it's just on the travel channel? I didn't know that. I watched the FL episode and Bourdain actually started to annoy me a little. The gushing, I'm hoping, was purely aimed at people who aren't really that into food. I mean, the man was sitting right next to Eric Ripert and was acting like he was experiencing something from another world. The French Laundry is definitely one of the best restaurants in the united states, but to me it kind of sends the wrong message, that it's the only place to go. I mean, it was a little weird with Eric Ripert being right beside him, but that's just me maybe. Also, the fact that he'd never seen a chef or heard of a chef going direct to source for produce is a bit alarming, as was his assertion that he hates vegetables. I know there's a number of people in food who think he's a bit of a philistine but I thought that was because he just likes to have the kind of fun most of those stuck up people frown upon but that was probably my largest dosage of watching him and I have to say that it kind of surprised me. I always used to mix him up with Alton Brown... I'm terrible with names.