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Anthony Bourdain in the Congo:
The Complete Country Guide"Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted to see the Congo, and for my sins, they let me". With these words, Anthony Bourdain experiences his own Heart of Darkness, as he ventures into the vast expanse of the Congo for one of his most defining adventures...
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Anthony Bourdain in Lagos, Nigeria: 7 Spots Where Tony Ate
For Anthony Bourdain experiencing the city of Lagos for the first time, the experience is eye-opening both in terms of this underlying entrepreneurial spirit, and the food that fuels it. With its extensive food offerings filmed in incredible 16 mm-based cinematography and with lush sound design, it’s easy to see why Lagos is one of Bourdain’s favorite experiences in his journeys to that point – and that's saying a lot as he doesn't make it there until quite late in his career...
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Anthony Bourdain in Ghana: 3+ Spots Where Tony Ate
Africa is known as the dark continent, and Anthony Bourdain admits that upon his first visit that he is indeed in unknown parts. "By now there are few areas of the world truly unknown to me", he comments as he arrives in the country of Ghana, to begin a love affair with this part of the world that lasts nearly a decade...
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Anthony Bourdain in Libya: 5 Spots Where Tony Ate
Given its recent tumultuous history, for Libya to be functioning as a country at all is astounding, and Anthony Bourdain learns upon visiting that the country is recovering from conflict and making the most of its food choices. Though his visit was over a decade ago now, Tony shows us a side of Libya many visitors never see – and certainly one those of us never get to know...
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Anthony Bourdain in Sardinia: 4 Spots Where Tony (& Ottavia) Ate
Located off the western coast of Italy, it's not surprising that many people assume Sardinia is as Italian as the mainland. However, you'll soon discover that Sardinia is a world unto itself, separate in almost all ways – even in the food you'll enjoy during your visit...
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Anthony Bourdain in Naples: 3 Spots Where Tony Ate (& Amalfi Coast, too!)
"To victory in our time, over mediocre food," Anthony Bourdain said, raising a glass of champagne above a table laden with fresh seafood dishes. His companion, a fellow chef, agreed and clinked glasses, and the two tucked into a meal of Italian food. As one might expect of Anthony Bourdain in Naples, the meal was unlike anything most of us in North America have ever had the pleasure to enjoy...
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Anthony Bourdain in Mozambique: 5 Spots Where Tony Ate
During his many travels on the African continent, Anthony Bourdain was always willing to try foods as they were in that place, showing off the incredible diversity of a place that many of us might think homogeneous. When Tony visited Mozambique in 2011, he found the former Portuguese colony to be a young nation, slowly rebuilding..
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Anthony Bourdain in Namibia: 4 Spots Where Tony Ate
With a name that literally translates as "a vast and dry plain," Namibia shows itself to Anthony Bourdain to be one of the truly great "empty" spaces of the world. But despite being a flat, largely featureless expanse of "nothingness," Namibia is home to a food culture that is quite unlike anything on Earth. While it might not appeal to everyone, it was a unique chapter in Bourdain's travel experiences...
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Anthony Bourdain in Morocco: The Complete Country Guide
"Just like the movies, life finally lives up to the advertising," muses Anthony Bourdain during his early career trip to the Kingdom of Morocco. Picking chunks of roasted lamb off the bone with his fingers, beneath a starlit sky in a seemingly endless desert, Tony is living out a childhood fantasy – but Morocco has more to its food and culture than just roasted desert meats, as he finds out...
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Anthony Bourdain in Tangier: 7 Spots Where Tony Ate
As you've probably seen on Instagram, Morocco has become quite the tourist hotspot in the past decade or so. Globetrotter Anthony Bourdain was no stranger to Morocco, having visited the country previously for his first show A Cook’s Tour back in 2002. For his return trip, however, he focuses on the northwestern city of Tangier, as he follows in the footsteps of writers like Matisse, Delacroix, Kerouac, and William Burroughs, losing himself in the streets as he searches for his own personal Interzone...
