Ken: I've never seen his wife in any of his other shows. It's great that he's introducing her to the audience.
He speaks of that in the Sardinia episode, and promises that this doesn't mean his show is becoming one of those where his wife and daughter are in every episode. But in this case, since his wife is Italian and she's spent much of her life traveling to Sardinia to visit her father's family there, it was a natural for her to be his guide in this episode.
Carole: It seems like a lot of the Travel Channel programs involve eating.
Bourdain has a comment there also, suggesting that for him, travel means going to different places to eat. And as I think about it, that's a big part of my own travel. As soon as we arrive in a Tuscan hill town, we start talking about where we're going to eat! The rest of our time there is not quite on that level of importance!