(CNN) Evan Piña-White has been a foodie since he was a little boy and Anthony Bourdain was his favorite.

Evan was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia when he was in middle school and would binge-watch Bourdain's television shows while he went through his chemotherapy treatments.

"That was how Evan filled his time at the hospital," said Brian Miller with Make-A-Wish Missouri. "He fell in love with Anthony Bourdain and everything about his show."

After a tough round of chemotherapy in 2010, Evan got to meet Bourdain at a book signing event in St. Louis. The 11-year-old asked where he should go to get the best seafood once he beat his disease, Miller said.

Bourdain told him to eat his way through Spain.

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