Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

In this episode of Parts Unknown we visit Ethiopia..

In this episode of Parts Unknown we visit Okinawa. The Ryukyu Kingdom ruled these islands from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century before being annexed as the Okinawa Prefecture by Japan in 1879.

For the first time in more than half a century, Cuba is on the verge of opening up to U.S. citizens - to ultimately be free to travel throughout as students, tourists - as explorers. But while the relaxing of the oft-tense relations between the two nations was officially announced more than five months ago, concrete changes are still advancing at a glacial pace.

When one thinks of great American food towns Charleston, South Carolina is probably not high on the list. This is a mistake. For some time now important things have been happening there largely thanks to one man: Sean Brock.

Marseille is France’s oldest and second biggest city, with eight-hundred-and-fifty thousand people, about a third of them Muslim; more than a third under thirty. The unemployment rate tops thirteen percent – and up to forty percent in the rougher parts of the city. It is estimated that a quarter of the population lives below the poverty line.

In this special episode of Parts Unknown, Tony travels to Malaysia to fulfill a decade-old promise to return to the Iban longhouse of Entalau deep in the jungles of Borneo. The Iban--one of Malaysia's oldest ethnic groups--once enjoyed a truly formidable reputation as trackers, warriors and ritualistic takers of heads.

In this episode of Parts Unknown, Tony visits the city of Istanbul. Like the rest of the country of Turkey, Istanbul is under construction. For over the last decade during President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s administration, there have been major shifts in Turkey.

The Bay Area has long been associated with a variety of hippie clichés: free love, peace, flowers of power, tofu. But one does not have to dig too deep beneath this crunchy exterior to find the real flesh and bones of the place: resistance, struggle, the good fight.