“Every chef has two families: the one you are born into, and the one you bleed with on the line.”
Welcome to a deeply personal, feature-length compilation—Back to Back Bourdain: The Ancestral Pull.
In the first half, Tony travels back to the coastal town of Arcachon, France (Childhood Flavors). This is ground zero for Bourdain. He revisits the exact beaches of his youth where a single, freshly shucked oyster awakened his palate and set him on a lifelong culinary journey.
In the second half, the concept of “family” shifts as Tony heads to Puebla, Mexico (Puebla, Where the Good Cooks Are From). Leaving his own history behind, he journeys to the hometowns of the Mexican line cooks who formed the absolute backbone of his kitchen at Brasserie Les Halles in New York City.
0:00 Childhood Flavors
21:19 Puebla, Where the Good Cooks Are From
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Anthony Bourdain and his brother, what a cool concept to revisit their father’s homeland together.
I got to travel to places without leaving home. This is an episode to remember. RIP Anthony😢
Lived in France for two years when I was a teen. I can relate to the "buying a six pack of Kronenbourg" remark, lol. It was such the easy life there as a teen.
Visited 27 years later and it's still the simple life. He's right, time hasn't touched some of the places I lived either. Clermont Ferrand still looks the same, so do parts of Lyon.
11:31 beautiful