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Chef, author, and raconteur Anthony Bourdain is best known for traveling the globe on his stomach, on his TV show Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.
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Bourdain’s producer: ‘It was an extremely selfish show’ 0:58
Apr 5, 2022
Bourdain had a decades-long obsession with the Congo, so “Parts Unknown” visited the country. Watch as the crew reflects on these life-changing moments. Don’t miss “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain” airing on CNN this spring.
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‘There were no second takes’: What it was like to film Bourdain 2:15
Mar 16, 2022
“You direct around Tony, you don’t direct Tony,” said one of the producers of “Parts Unknown.” The crew explains what “stovepiping” is and why Bourdain would dagger-eye you for doing it.
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The craziest things Bourdain ate around the world 1:21
Mar 16, 2022
The crew of “Parts Unknown” reminisces about the food they ate on location with Anthony Bourdain.
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‘Difficult, funny, brilliant’: Crew gives honest take on Bourdain 1:14
Mar 16, 2022
The “Parts Unknown” crew opens up about what is was really like working with host Anthony Bourdain. Don’t miss “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain” airing on CNN this spring.
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‘Things went wrong’: The chaos behind Bourdain’s beloved ‘Parts Unknown’ 1:26
Mar 16, 2022
Sandstorms. Earthquakes. Stolen gear. Political unrest. The list of what could and did go wrong is significant, and yet it never stopped the crew from filming Bourdain.
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Bourdain teaches Obama the art of the noodle slurp (2016) 1:17
Mar 2, 2022
President Obama joins Anthony Bourdain in Hanoi for a crash course in Vietnamese dining.
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In Bhutan, Bourdain familiarizes himself with the culture 1:56
Jun 21, 2018
Here’s a sneak peek of Anthony Bourdain’s trip to Bhutan, the hard-to-reach region in the Himalayas. Watch Parts Unknown Sundays at 9PM ET/PT on CNN.
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Bourdain: Why are Filipino workers so kind and giving?
Aug 4, 2017
Anthony Bourdain returns to the Philippines with a personal mission: Where does the Filipino instinct for kindness come from?
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown - 401 - Greece Tony stands at the Bow of the Penelope sailboat as we circle around Naxos, Greece.
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Anthony Bourdain uncovers a different kind of Greek island in Naxos
Mar 23, 2017
Take a voyage of discovery find out what makes Naxos a different kind of Greek island. Anthony Bourdain is your travel mate.
The "leaning tower of Tbilisi" is a curiosity of the old town. The tower, which was built in 2011, is attached to the Puppet Theater owned by the famed puppeteer Rezo Gabriadze, who built the theater himself over a span of 30 years, using pieces from abandoned structures that were destroyed following a major earthquake.
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In Georgia, uncover stunning scenery under Russia’s long shadow
Mar 22, 2017
Anthony Bourdain heads to the former Soviet republic of Georgia and finds a beautiful and complicated nation. Read why it’s on his travel list.
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Anthony Bourdain soaks in the melancholy of Buenos Aires
Mar 22, 2017
Anthony Bourdain visits Buenos Aires in the summertime, when the streets empty and the capital of Argentina slows down.
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Obama, Bourdain chew the fat in Hanoi
Mar 22, 2017
President Barack Obama and Anthony Bourdain share a meal in Hanoi. Listen in on what they had to say to each other.
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In Sichuan, Eric Ripert takes on Bourdain’s spicy food challenge
Mar 13, 2017
Anthony Bourdain challenges friend and fellow chef Eric Ripert with the numbing, searing cuisine of China’s Sichuan province. Can Ripert handle it?
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Anthony Bourdain in Rome: Our most beautiful show
Dec 6, 2016
The season finale of “Parts Unknown” was shot in Rome. “It’s a very beautiful show. The most beautiful we’ve ever made, I think,” says Anthony Bourdain.
From what I remember after copious amounts of caparinha, beer and cachaca, this was a good time.
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Where Brazil’s best cooks come from
Nov 25, 2016
Someone said “gun!” while we were shooting a scene in Minas Gerais, Brazil, and the next thing I knew my director, Mo Fallon, had dragged me to the floor.

About

Chef, author, and raconteur Anthony Bourdain is best known for traveling the globe on his stomach, on his TV show Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown. Somewhat notoriously, he has established himself as a professional gadfly, bête noir, advocate, social critic, and pork enthusiast, recognized for his caustic sense of humor worldwide. He is as unsparing of those things he hates, as he is evangelical about his passions.

Bourdain is the author of the bestselling Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, a candid, hysterical, and sometimes shocking portrait of life in restaurant kitchens that has been translated into more than 28 languages – as well as the travel journal, A Cook’s Tour, the non-fiction Medium Raw, 3 crime novels, a cookbook, a biography of Typhoid Mary, the bestselling graphic novel Get JIRO!, and others. He is currently at work on a sequel to Get JIRO!

His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Times of London, Bon Appetit, Gourmet, Vanity Fair, Lucky Peach and many other publications. He has shared his insights about team building and crisis management with the Harvard Business Review. He has been profiled by CBS Sunday Morning and Nightline, and has been a guest on The Late Show with David Letterman, Morning Joe, TODAY, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Daily Show, Charlie Rose, The Colbert Report, and Real Time with Bill Maher.

Bourdain joined the writing staff of HBO’s Treme in 2011, contributing to the popular drama’s restaurant storylines. He recently launched his own publishing line with Ecco, Anthony Bourdain Books, an imprint of HarperCollins. The first titles were released in 2013.

Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, which he made from 2004 – 2012, was widely popular all over the world, has won two Emmy Awards, with several other nominations. 2013 saw the premiere of two new television shows hosted by Bourdain: The Taste, a cooking competition series for ABC with Nigella Lawson, the third season of which debuted in December 2014, and Parts Unknown, a travel docu-series for CNN, which won two Emmy Awards in 2013 and a Peabody Award and Emmy Award in 2014.