All episodes Season 3 S03E04 2014-05-04 60 min 2010s CNN

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

Mexico City

TV Flash files “Mexico City” as hour 20 of 95 in the TV Flash guide — Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013–2018) on CNN, season 3, episode 4, aired 2014-05-04, 60 min.

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This leaf is S03E04: listed hour 20 of 95 in the Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown guide, hour 4 of 8 in season 3. It aired 2014-05-04 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Lyon, France” (S03E03). Next is “Russia” (S03E05).

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown — Mexico City (S03E04)

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Bourdain travels to Mexico City, Oaxaca, and Cuernavaca to commune with local residents who express their passion through food, art, and the struggle for an improved quality of life. Bourdain talks with journalist Anabel Hernández on the impact of the area's drug trade-related violence and how it affects local quality of life.

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Where does Mexico City sit in the Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown guide?

S03E04 is listed hour 20 of 95 — hour 4 of 8 in season 3, season 3 episode 4.

When did Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown S03E04 air?

Mexico City aired 2014-05-04 and is listed at 60 minutes.

Do I need to watch in order?

Each episode is a place. Jump by curiosity — Iran, Libya, Congo, or a city you think you already know. The ethic is consistent; the map is not a serial plot.

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Anthony Bourdain sits at tables through conflict and history, eating without tourist gloss. CNN as unlikely prestige: food as politics, loneliness, and grace. Travel television with literary soul — curiosity as ethics — and a body of work that rewatches now as both journalism and a decade's memorial.

The first look is a table without tourist gloss. Anthony Bourdain sits with people around the world, eating through history and conflict — CNN series premiered **2013**, an unlikely network turned prestige destination: food as politics, loneliness, and grace. Multiple Emmys. Episodes in Iran, Libya, Congo and more became teaching texts. Curiosity as ethics. Travel television with literary soul — the table as journalism, the plate as pretext for who gets to be seen. Tessa's tags will rank a "best bite." Let them.…

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