I saw Bourdain’s show on Montreal but my favorite of all his shows was the one where he went into the West Bank in Israel profiling both Palestinian and Israeli restaurants and then finally a West Bank Vegetarian restaurant co owned by a Palestinian Man and his Israeli Jewish wife. Bourdain delicately handled the political and cultural issues, made no judgments on anyone, and used the different cuisines to celebrate the diversity of the cultures. He was a unifying force - using cuisine to bring people together and tell remarkable stories.