Watching Beirut die, by Anthony Bourdain

When the Israel–Hezbollah War broke out, the celebrated chef Anthony Bourdain, who died in June 2018, was in Beirut to film a TV show about the city’s vibrant culinary and cultural scene. In 2006 he wrote in Salon about how he and his film crew stood on the barricades of their hotel balcony and watched it all go up in smoke — again.