Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Season 1
8 listed hours · 2013–2018 · CNN
From the desk
How this season is filed
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.
TV Flash files Season 1 of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013–2018) on CNN as the first listed season of 12 — 8 listed hours, 2013-04-14–2013-06-09 from “Myanmar” (S01E01) to “Congo” (S01E08). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S01E01 Myanmar
Myanmar sits Bourdain at the table without tourist gloss: CNN as unlikely prestige, food as politics from the first passport.
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S01E01 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.
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S01E02 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.
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S01E03 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.
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S01E04 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.
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S01E05 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?
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S01E06 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.
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S01E07 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.
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S01E08 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.
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