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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 12:02 PM

    "In the end we are among the lucky ones."

    The most perfect sentence in a perfect article. I could hear his voice, see him on the screen, as close as I have ever been to Mr. Bourdain, or to Beirut. War reporting of the kind this country hasn't read since Hemingway, e.e. cummings, or Ernie Pyle. Thanks, Mr. Bourdain, I have saved your article to reread when this madness is finally over.

    —Marty Carpenter Read Marty Carpenter's other letters

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