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26. Check out his show on Haiti (No Reservations). It's like a punch in the gut.

As I remember that particular episode:

There's a street vendor and he and his crew decide to buy all her day's food for the kids standing around watching the taping. The kids are obviously hungry.

They pay for the food and thugs come along and beat the kids away to get the food.

Here is a review of this episode:

The Haiti episode, which contrasted his tour of the country’s culinary highlights with scenes of its continued blight and poverty, was less a travel show than a kind of multilayered essay on Haiti’s political history, the ethics of tourism, the morality of journalism/voyeurism and the wisdom of well-intentioned efforts. In an early scene, Bourdain and crew guiltily buy out a food stand to feed hungry onlookers, and fights break out among the too-large crowd. “Simple!” he narrates. “Fill the bellies of some cute kids! A goodhearted expression of kindness! We all go back to our hotel feeling really good about ourselves, right? … Because we thought with our hearts and not our heads, it all turned to sh-t.”

Introducing the episode, Bourdain notes that—unlike many countries the show has visited—people in Haiti tend to avoid cameras because they’ve paraded their suffering for too many Western cameramen for the promise of help that didn’t materialize. “Are we part of the problem?” he asks.



Read more: http://entertainment.time.com/2011/03/01/the-morning-after-discomfort-food/#ixzz2b3hqPkHD