Anthony Bourdain had no reservations about a move to CNN. Shortly after concluding an eight-season stint at the helm of his popular Travel Channel series, the equally popular Emmy-winning host came to the news network searching for Parts Unknown. In the hourlong weekend series -- similar in premise to Travel's Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (2005) -- Bourdain explores the world to, he says, eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice ... they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get. Enticed by the opportunity to experience cultures rarely visited by American TV, such as in the Congo, Libya and Myanmar, the chef and best-selling author also takes viewers to Colombia, Peru, Morocco and, closer to home, Koreatown in Los Angeles. Written by Jwelch5742
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With the slight relaxation of control by the government of Myanmar, Tony is finally able to explore one of the most beautiful areas of Asia.
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Bourdain examines the meeting point of Asian, Mexican, Latino culture in modern LA.
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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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The two funniest and most brilliant chef/restaurateurs in Canada take us across Canada by rail.
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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.
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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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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.
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Bourdain looks at the Congo as one of the more industrialized powers in Africa now largely crumbled to nothingness and chaos.