In “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations,” which was nominated for four Emmys this year in its seventh season (it lost for best nonfiction series to “American Masters” on PBS), and in his new series, “ The Layover,” which begins Monday night on the Travel Channel, one of his accomplishments is to pay attention to the actual experience of travel - the getting to and from. Bourdain remains the best of the Americans abroad on TV: the professional voyagers, concentrated on the Travel Channel but also popping up in places like the Food Network and PBS, who have largely taken over the role travel and food writers once held in feeding our appetite for vicarious exoticism. It’s childish and mean, and it’s also illustrative of why Mr. Bringing up one of his favorite whipping girls, his fellow Travel Channel host Samantha Brown, he grins like a schoolboy and delivers the zinger: “Sam Brown has an assistant who stands outside the bathroom and runs in and takes the blame.” SLUMPED in the back seat of a Singapore cab, punchy after a 17-hour flight but rising to the challenge of the omnipresent camera, Anthony Bourdain gets a little silly about the odorous consequences of long-distance air travel combined with subpar airplane food.

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