In 2018, prestige television has at last welcomed a great variety of middlebrow food programming, with expensive production values and regard for culinary auteurs the world over. Michelin-star television, such as Chef’s Table and Ugly Delicious, is now a subgenre unto itself. The final, posthumous season of Parts Unknown will end with all-consuming tributes, but it begins with Bourdain doing what he does best - eating, talking, listening.Ĭable channels and video-streaming services have followed Bourdain’s example: There’s now far more thoughtful and adventurous food programming than there was at the start of Bourdain’s television career 16 years ago. Bell explains his trepidation about “doing right by this culture,” which gave him his name, Kamau.
Throughout their travels together - at modest dining tables and atop gorgeous hilltops - Bell describes the disparities and tensions between black American identity and black African identity. Bell enters the episode as Bourdain’s guest, but he quickly establishes himself as the episode’s dominant perspective - an African American comedian and civil rights activist who is anxious to visit his ancestral home for the first time. In Kenya, Bourdain and Bell discuss the African diaspora. Parts Known: Anthony Bourdain and the Passage of Time While Living on TV Our Great Ambassador: In Memory of Anthony Bourdain
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