Anthony Bourdain discovers a hipster-free foodie paradise in The Bronx

Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 04 Oktober 2014 | 18.18

Anthony Bourdain spent 150 days on the road last year filming his CNN show "Parts Unknown," but Sunday's episode gave the Upper East Side resident a rare opportunity to commute to work.

In the fourth-season episode (airing at 9 p.m.), the chef and author travels to The Bronx, where he explores the cuisine and culture of a New York City borough that is often overlooked — even by the well-traveled host.

"It's an acknowledgment of my own ignorance of this massive borough that's so close to me and that I know so little about," Bourdain, 58, tells The Post from LA, where he is filming Season 3 of his ABC cooking competition show "The Taste."

"So many of us Manhattanites have come to know Brooklyn; Queens has had a reputation as a foodie paradise for some time. The Bronx is right there and it hasn't had the international profile of the other boroughs, and I started to ask myself why that is."

Much of the episode focuses on The Bronx as the birthplace of hip-hop, and features interviews with such genre pioneers as DJ Kool Herc, music producer Afrika Bambaataa and rapper Melle Mel.

Bourdain says he tends to pick local residents he personally admires and guides the shows' itineraries by their favorite spots or particular backgrounds.

Ambrosia and Bourdain at Cuchifritos.Photo: CNN

In The Bronx, he eats Puerto Rican food at 188 Cuchifritos with the culinary ambassador Baron Ambrosia, drinks Wray & Nephew rum at Barry's Restaurant in the Wakefield neighborhood with podcast host Desus, and devours a Crave Case at a White Castle with the punk rock singer Handsome Dick Manitoba.

After spending a little over a week filming, Bourdain was most surprised to discover just how big and diverse The Bronx is, and says the episode "barely scratched the surface" of the borough.

All of the things that foodies claim to love — discovering new, exciting, little-known ethnic enclaves with terrific food — that is available in abundance in The Bronx. - Anthony Bourdain

"All of the things that foodies claim to love — discovering new, exciting, little-known ethnic enclaves with terrific food — that is available in abundance in The Bronx," he says. "It's enormous and relatively hipster-free."

The Bronx is the second episode of "Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown"'s new season, which premiered last Sunday with an episode in Shanghai that averaged 538,000 viewers (down 21 percent from last September).

With three seasons of the CNN show and two previous Travel Channel series — "No Reservations" and "The Layover" — under his belt, Bourdain says he and his producers spend a lot of time making sure they don't repeat themselves.

The rest of the eight-episode season will make stops in Vietnam, Massachusetts, Tanzania and Jamaica — as well as the host's first trips to Paraguay and Iran, the latter of which he promises will be an "upsetting and very complicated show.

"Providing a show that everybody loves is not really the priority," Bourdain says, "it's just being different than the week before."


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