I've been trying my best to watch that series. There's a couple posted on YouTube. I'm very annoyed because NetFlix is supposed to have it but there's the stupid licensing crap. So I've only seen a couple and I think I may have to look into another way of seeing it...
Maybe I can make a slight detour on my road trip to Switzerland and go there.
I really hope you get to see the Lyon, France episode. He showed a lot of preparation and cooking methods that I have never seen or heard of before. My wife and I were like, "Are you kidding me? They put it in a pig's bladder to cook?" and " Why did they seal it in cement?".
Something else that really surprised me about Bourdain was his French was really limited to only really simple basic expressions and need an interpreter for everything else. His grandparents immigrated from France and his father worked in France in the summer, as I recall.