https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/08/anthony-bourdain-honest-and-fearless-his-words-he-was-his-travels-dead-61-apparent
"Bourdain "didn't look down on foreign places he visited and their 'quaintness/backwardness/insert-usual-derogatory adjective.' He dived in, hungry to experience. His wasn't the Orientalist gaze. He saw humanity (and food) everywhere, and connected with it"."