Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Cuba
TV Flash files “Cuba” as a desk essential hour — Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013–2018) on CNN, season 6, episode 1, aired 2015-09-27, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E01: listed hour 41 of 95 in the Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown guide, first listed hour of season 6. It aired 2015-09-27 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Beirut” (S05E08). Next is “Marseille, France” (S06E02).
Essential hour: “Cuba”. Cuba is an embargo table: food as politics, the host still the ethics, no tourist gloss on the plate.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In the season six premiere, Bourdain explores Cuba – just as the half-century U.S. embargo softens and economic and social progress loom – from its bustling capital city Havana, to the slower paced, music mecca Santiago. Sampled food includes pig's head soup with plantains and pumpkin, flan in a beer can, and dogfish ceviche with pickled vegetables. The tour culminates with a dialogue-free tracking shot capturing the hopeful anxiety of its people, seemingly waiting for something to start.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Cuba sit in the Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown guide?
S06E01 is listed hour 41 of 95 — first listed hour of season 6, season 6 episode 1.
When did Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown S06E01 air?
Cuba aired 2015-09-27 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.
In the series
Why this series still plays
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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Anthony Bourdain sat at tables through conflict and history on Parts Unknown — CNN as unlikely prestige, food as politics, loneliness, and grace, travel television with literary soul. Curiosity as ethics. TV Flash files him as the 2010s…