♲ @faab64@diasp.org:> ### Laila El-Haddad : He was a master storyteller, and a master baby whisperer, having rocked my 7 month old to sleep in the middle of shooting our episode of #PartsUnknownCNN in #Gaza. I wasn’t sure what to expect of him, but upon first setting foot in Gaza where we met, the first thing he said to me was that he was absolutely dumbfounded at what he’d witnessed in the #WestBank and #Jerusalem.
"That is something seriously (expletive) up. And one has to see it to believe it. I told the Israelis -you are not gonna like the cake you’re baking-it’s only a matter of time before it implodes.”
He also later confided to me that the episode almost didn’t air “We fought like hell, though, to tell the stories we did--best we could tell them and I'm, on balance pretty happy-though definite reservations.
In any event, all the right people are infuriated.” Th "Peabody Awards" describes him best when they said “He (was) irreverent, honest, curious, never condescending, never obsequious.” RIP #Bourdain