Name: Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
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Description: World-renowned chef and author Anthony Bourdain travels the globe to visit little-known destinations, delving into their political issues as well as food and culture.

World-renowned chef and author Anthony Bourdain travels the globe to visit little-known destinations, delving into their political issues as well as food and culture.

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In his maiden voyage to the country formerly known as Burma, Anthony Bourdain and his crew discover the fabled beauty and local cuisines of a country that had been, up until recently, off-limits to outsiders.

Myanmar

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.

Koreatown

Tony explores the country from the mountains down to the Caribbean coast to the coca leaf growing inlands that were formerly controlled by drug cartels as the public face of Colombia changes for the better.

Colombia

Bourdain travels to remote areas in 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.

Quebec

Tony explores the "Interzone," where artists like Burroughs, Bowles and the Rolling Stones sought escape from Western moral prohibitions and the possibilities of great empty spaces. Does that "anything goes" attitude still exist?

Tangier, Morocco

Libyan hip-hop, Italian restaurants, tribal allegiances and post-war uncertainty abound in Libya. Bourdain looks at the country through personal stories, food and the music of anti-Qaddafi rapper expats who returned to fight.

Libya

Tony and world-renowned chef Eric Ripert, explore the far reaches of indigenous Andes, from hip, modern Lima back in time into pre-Columbian Peru in search of the world's best wild cocoa.

Peru

Bourdain looks at the Congo as one of the more industrialized powers in Africa, now largely crumbled to nothingness and chaos.

Congo

The host and crew make their first trip to Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. While the political situation is often tense between the people living in these areas, Tony concentrates on their rich history, food and culture.

Jerusalem

Tony explores Andalucia during the week leading up to Easter, a time filled with great pageantry and excitement. Bourdain's longtime director of photography Zach Zamboni lives part-time in Granada, and shows the host sights off the beaten path.

Spain

Anthony investigates the underside of the Western cowboy ideal and the mash-up of cultures that comprise this uniquely American state by sampling a combination of Spanish, Mediterranean, Mexican, Pueblo and even chuck-wagon influences.

New Mexico

Tony explores the food and natural beauty of Copenhagen, the economic and cultural center of Denmark. He delves into the city's cuisine and the Nordic creativity that infuses chef Rene Redzepi's Noma, regarded as one of the world's best restaurants.

Copenhagen

Tony explores the Sicilian way of life, which puts a premium on savoring family, life and food. Making his home base at the Villa Monaci on the outskirts of Catania, he travels in search of those foods as he eats his way around the island.

Sicily

Bourdain visits the suburb of Hillbrow and explores the culture and food that make up modern day Johannesburg, once considered the most dangerous city in the world.

South Africa

Japan is a paradox, with a competitive and rigid culture that gives way to some unique subcultures. Bourdain has traveled to Tokyo countless times, but on this trip, he is in search of the city's dark, extreme and bizarrely fetishistic underside.

Tokyo

Anthony explores the dramatic economic rise and fall of Detroit as he looks upon the past at the Packard Plant, the current urban decay, and the promise of the future.

Detroit

After eight years, Tony returns to South Korea, and this time, he's no stranger to kimchi. But just as Tony has changed, so has Korea. There aren't many comparisons to Korea's stratospheric rise over the last decade.

Korea

Miami, Florida, is a city in constant flux. Tourists come to South Beach to party, soak up rays and then leave slightly more leathery. People from all over Latin America come to live, work, and build communities.

Miami

Deep-fried haggis, a knife defense lesson and a trip to the Scottish Highlands are on the menu in Glasgow.

Scotland

For the first time, Tony visits Budapest, Hungary -- a bustling city of contradictions. At once young and cutting edge, each and every corner, building, intersection and citizen is still haunted by ghosts of the past.

Budapest

Tony travels to Madagascar, a place that outsiders understand surprisingly little about. Of course, everyone's familiar with the animated cartoon, but fewer know that Madagascar is an island nation 300 miles off the coast of Africa.

Madagascar

In this episode of Parts Unknown, Tony travels back to his homeland, his roots, his favorite state in the Union: New Jersey. Part nostalgia, part cautionary tale, Tony makes sure to hit up some NJ classics.

New Jersey

In this episode of Parts Unknown, Tony spends time enjoying the paradise that really is Hawaii, the essence of the Hawaiian "Aloha spirit," what really unites and bonds one of the most diverse islands in the world.

Hawaii

The first time Tony visited Beirut, it didn't end well. Now Tony is back in Beirut, Lebanon's capital and largest city, where all the world's troubles and all the world's good come together to form a city like no other.

Beirut

For the first time in more than half a century, Cuba is on the verge of opening up to US citizens -- to ultimately be free to travel throughout as students, tourists, and explorers.

Cuba

For this episode, Tony has once again invited his long time pal and Michelin-starred super chef of New York's Le Bernardin, Eric Ripert, to come along and help him get to the heart of Marseille, France.

Marseille

In this episode of Parts Unknown we visit Okinawa, Japan. The Ryukyu Kingdom ruled these islands from the 15th to the 19th century before being annexed as the Okinawa Prefecture by Japan in 1879. But this isn't Japan. It's somewhere different.

Okinawa

In this episode, Tony will explore the Bay Area, old and new. But Tony will also embark on a wholly personal journey -- to train with legendary Brazilian jiu-jitsu instructor Kurt Osiander.

Bay Area

Ethiopia: the name alone conjures images of the extremities of human suffering. Famine, drought, civil war, disease and despotism are the history here, or at least the part we have seen most predominantly in the West.

Ethiopia

In this special episode of Parts Unknown, Tony travels to Malaysia to fulfill a decade-old promise to return to the Iban longhouse of Entalau deep in the jungles of Borneo.

Borneo

In this episode of Parts Unknown, Tony visits the city of Istanbul. Like the rest of the country of Turkey, Istanbul is under construction.

Istanbul

When one thinks of great American food towns Charleston, South Carolina, is probably not high on the list. This is a mistake. For some time now important things have been happening there largely thanks to one man: Sean Brock.

Charleston

Anthony Bourdain explores the Philippines at Christmas. He eats at beloved chicken chain Jollibee, samples sisig and indulges in the popular dessert halo-halo.

Manila: The Philippines

Anthony Bourdain visits the iconic Old Town Ale House, eats mapo tofu in Chinatown and shares a home-cooked meal with rapper Lupe Fiasco.

Chicago

Home to a fiercely independent and proud population, Tony finds life on the Greek islands is soaked in sun, tradition, local food and family.

The Greek Islands

Anthony Bourdain visits the Crow Reservation, hunts with podcast host Joe Rogan and eats dinner at Butte institution Lydia's Supper Club.

Montana

Zamir Gotta upstages Anthony Bourdain on a tour of the country situated in the Caucasus, featuring food from Tbilisi, Batumi and Khurvaleti.

Tbilisi, Georgia

Anthony explores Senegal with the help of chef Pierre Thiam, NPR Africa correspondent Ofeibea Quist Arcton, and international superstar Youssou N'Dour.

Senegal

Tony visits Cologne, Germany, during the city's infamous Carnival season. He pops open a Kolsch, enjoys the raw minced pork dish mett and talks to locals about recent unrest.

Cologne, Germany

Bourdain's trip to meat-centric Buenos Aires features a meal at famous local spot, Don Carlito's, and an after-hours soccer match.

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

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