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Friday, July 28, 2006 12:00 AM

Watching Beirut die

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.
By Anthony Bourdain

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  • Friday, July 28, 2006 01:37 PM

    well done, unbearably sad

    Thanks for that. The headline was so appropriate.

    And I thought all of us here in the US had ample reason to be depressed

    over the Bush-eating-roll incident. My God.

    Brilliant writing, perhaps better journalism for the way it all turned out...

    but bitterly, almost unbearably sad--like attending an evening in hell's own nightclub & coming home to articulate it.

    —pamiam Read pamiam's other letters

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