Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Porto, Portugal
TV Flash files “Porto, Portugal” as the last listed hour of season 9 — Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013–2018) on CNN, season 9, episode 8, aired 2017-07-02, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S09E08: listed hour 72 of 95 in the Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown guide, last listed hour of season 9. It aired 2017-07-02 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Trinidad” (S09E07). Next is “Singapore” (S10E01).
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Food takes center stage on this tour of the northern Portugal city by Bourdain, whose local travel companions include his former Les Halles boss Jose Meirelles. A sumptuous pig tripe dinner at A Cozinha do Martinho, an at-home meal of sea lamprey and a stop at Café O Afonso for local specialty Francesinha highlight the trip which culminates with a traditional food celebration in the Douro Valley countryside.
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Where does Porto, Portugal sit in the Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown guide?
S09E08 is listed hour 72 of 95 — last listed hour of season 9, season 9 episode 8.
When did Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown S09E08 air?
Porto, Portugal aired 2017-07-02 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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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…