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Parts Unknown
2018 · Film · 115 min
Directed by Richard Chandler
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I wish he sticked to food, his only expertise. His Newfoundland episode in Parts Unknown is the best and most tasty piece of television I have ever watched. Why is that good? Guess what, he brought on his pals that are great chefs from that place.
Remember watching the Lyon episode of Parts Unknown where Bourdain goes to a men's luncheon club. Looked real fun. Wish we had more of those.
In Lyon, France, there are traditional “eating and drinking societies” called Francs-Mâchons. You can see them also in the Lyon episode of Parts Unknown with Tony Bourdain on YouTube.
There is an interesting exchange in Bourdains "Parts Unknown" [1] that he did in Montana where he's talking to a former labor leader and politician from Butte where he says "the company is a son of a bitch, but they were our son of a bitch" (very much worth watching the entire show, but in particular the Butte segment). I grew up in a union family and that held true of the union as well. Something changed in my lifetime (I'm 40 years old) and I really do think it was NAFTA and free trade in general, but also it was the US reaching a terminal state of resource extraction, or at least the level of resource extraction we were willing to tolerate. The two of these weakened unions and worker solidarity and slowed the profit momentum that we had become accustom to and gave carte blanche to corporations to seek local profits in remote places. I think this fundamentally changed the dynamic of being a worker across all industries and, as you allude to, the focus on organizational optimization (coupled with quarterly earnings focused business culture) only heightened the alienation of workers and now the chicken is coming home to roost for the entire American project. Aside from deindustrialization and optimization, I think much of this can be laid at the foot of the stock market and our collective fixation on it as a barometer for societal success.
[1] https://youtu.be/KU7mda-4KwQ?t=1232
If that was the case why stop now? And why did they let parts unknown film in Palestine in 2013. The episode wasn't very pro Israel either. This a little to conspiracy theory for me.
One thing that struck a nerve with me. If you watch Season 11 of Parts Unknown, you can definitely see a man who is at times struggling with himself and who he is, blatantly, openly so at points.
For all the episodes where he is having a ball, it definitely paints a contrast, and a tragic one at that.
His return to Borneo was rather profound, for me. He seemed to be battling demons, be it substance or other.
Bocuse and his far-reaching influence on the world of modern French cuisine was thoroughly covered in the "Lyon" episode of the Parts Unknown series - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3717664/
There's a good Parts Unknown episode (with Anthony Bourdain) that introduced me to Bocuse. Recommended watching..
There's a Parts Unknown episode with Anthony Bourdain where he highlights this, basically saying that if he ever hears anyone say "That sushi was so good, it was so fresh" he knows that don't know what they are talking about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0hH_XR433A
It seems more and more (to me at least) that the coup d'état attempt could have been allowed, if not blatantly organized by the ruling elite of Turkey.
There's actually a great scene in the end of the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Istanbul episode where someone close to the ruling class (a business owner), makes the following comment[1]:
> "Fear works. Fear gets votes."
Beyond that, I can't find a clip, but it was the most real-life foreshadowing I have ever seen in my life.
[1] http://www.eater.com/2015/11/8/9684640/parts-unknown-recap-istanbul-anthony-bourdain
It's also worth watching episode 7 of Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown where he goes back home to Massachusetts. A large portion of the episode is focused on this.
You have kids in high school who are injured in sports, are prescribed painkillers by their doctors which eventually gets them on heroin. The addicts didn't wake up one day thinking, "You know what? I think I'm going to try heroin today." It was legal pharmaceuticals with falsely advertised addiction rates that got them onto it.
I recently saw an episode of "Anthony Bourdain - Parts Unknown" where he visits Colombia. He talked to locals about the drug trade and one person he interviewed made a very good argument that stuck with me:
Many people see drugs as a single problem with a single solution (eliminate all the drugs). But it's much more reasonable to see it as two problems: trafficking and use. Trafficking would be decimated with legalization and money fighting it could be spent on programs to help users.