Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

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.

Roy Choi created a Brave New World of gastronomy almost single handedly with his LA based Kogi trucks. A Korean American who grew up on the fringes of Mexican and hip hop culture; his food reflects a new American idea of "natural" fusion--culinary influences that grew up next to and with each other. Bourdain examines the meeting point of Asian, Mexican, Latino culture in modern LA.

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.

The two funniest and most brilliant chef/restaurateurs in Canada, Joe Beef's Dave McMillan and Fred Morin, take us across Canada by rail.

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?

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.

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.

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.