I've got his Les Halles cookbook right there about 4 feet away. His fiction writing is good too.
Thanks for the post.
"IIRC Bourdaine was hanging with the Khmer Rouge on one show I saw a few years ago."
I wish Food Network would release his previous shows on DVD. Discovery already has 8 shows on 4 DVDs (including Vietnam). Would love to see the Cambodia episode.
"He was at a combination restaurant\ rifle range in Cambodia."
The AK rifle range has been spruced-up since the Singaporeans made an investment. It used to be just a lowly bamboo hut. Contrary to popular myth, you couldn't shoot B40 rockets at stationary cows. That was borne from the reality that your real target was a Coke can sitting at the bottom of a 10-foot berm, and only M-79 grenades (not B40 RPG) were available. IIRC, $20 a pop.