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s12e07 · 2018-11-12
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Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
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Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown follows chef and author Anthony Bourdain to extraordinary locations across the globe to celebrate diverse cultures exploring their food and dining rituals. Known for his curiosity, candor, and acerbic wit, Bourdain took viewers off the beaten path of tourist destinations – including some war-torn parts of the world – and met with a variety of local citizens to offer a window into their lifestyles, and occasionally communed with an internationally lauded chef on his journey.
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8 this season · 96 totals01e01 Myanmar 2013-04-15 01:00
Myanmar
With the slight relaxation of control by the government of Myanmar, Tony is finally able to explore one of the most fabled and beautiful areas of Asia.
s01e02 Los Angeles 2013-04-22 01:00
Los Angeles
Tony takes Los Angeles--but with a twist. No Hollywood sign, no Beverly Hills. Instead, he zeroes in on a three-square-mile area of the city known as Koreatown, where he finds a tight-knit community still marked by the 1992 Rodney King riots.
s01e03 Colombia 2013-04-29 01:00
Colombia
The public face of Colombia has changed immensely over the past ten years and is still changing for the better. Tony will explore several regions of the country from the mountains down to the Caribbean coast to the coca leaf growing inlands formerly controlled by drug cartels.
s01e04 Quebec, Canada 2013-05-06 01:00
Quebec, Canada
Anthony Bourdain travels by rail to remote areas within the province of Quebec where he samples local delicacies, explores ice fishing and beaver hunting and spends time with two of funniest and most brilliant chef/restauranteurs in Canada, Joe Beef's Dave McMillan and Fred Morin.
s01e05 Tangier, Morocco 2013-05-13 01:00
Tangier, Morocco
What Burroughs called 'Interzone', where artists like Burroughs, Bowles, Rimbaud, Verlaine, the Rolling Stones sought escape from Western moral prohibitions and the possibilities of great empty spaces. But what is it like now?
s01e06 Libya 2013-05-20 01:00
Libya
Libyan hip-hop, Italian restaurants, tribal allegiances and post-war uncertainty in Libya. Bourdain looks at the country through personal stories, food--and the music of anti-Qaddafi rapper expats who returned to fight.
s01e07 Peru 2013-06-03 01:00
Peru
Tony and his friend, world-renowned chef Eric Ripert, explore the far reaches of indigenous Andes in search of a rare variety of wild cocoa that is said to be the 'best' in the world. They move from hip, modern Lima back in time into pre-Colombian Peru.
s01e08 Congo 2013-06-10 01:00
Congo
Bourdain looks at the Congo as one of the more industrialized powers in Africa now largely crumbled to nothingness and chaos with Tim Butcher author of Blood River.