If Anthony Bourdain ever appeared on your television screen, there’s a good chance Tom Vitale stood behind the…
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How do you pick the 20 best episodes of Parts Unknown? The answer is, with great difficulty. How do you compare an…
Anthony Bourdain died on June 8, 2018. At the time of his passing, he’d completed filming on five episodes of what…
There’s an astonishing moment in this season’s “Hong Kong,” when legendary cinematographer Christopher Doyle,…
The striking cinematography of “Lagos,” the sharp-edged rock of “Seattle,” and the food (the food!) of “Puerto Rico”…
This season brings Bourdain to “the ass-end of the world”—that would be the South Pole—but there are plenty of other…
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Where do you go after sharing a beer and some food with Barack Obama? In this excellent season, the answer is:…
Traveling can be a solitary, even a lonely pursuit—and that’s true even when you’re traveling with a host of camera…
There are a lot of unknown parts in this season of Parts Unknown. Ripert meets an unexplored corner of France.…
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One of the great Parts Unknown lessons: If you let them, places—and people—can surprise you. In this fifth season,…
“I was put on earth to do this,” Bourdain says early in the first of two trips he’ll take to Vietnam for Parts…
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Fair warning, had you not already figured this out: There is no season of Parts Unknown that’s entirely devoid of…
This season begins with a trip to Jerusalem, Bourdain speaking with Israelis and Palestinians about their hopes,…
“The door is opening in Myanmar,” Anthony Bourdain wrote of his very first episode of Parts Unknown, “—and we are…