Watch: A Cook's Tour
I am working my through all of Anthony Bourdain’s shows. I started from the beginning with A Cook’s Tour. It is older and a wee bit dated, but It is the OG genesis of Anthony’s path to culinary greatness. I discovered an amazing website called Eat Like Bourdain that tracks all of his shows and episodes and they say it best …
“A Cook’s Tour was Anthony Bourdain’s first television show. It ran from January 2002 through 2003 on the Food Network. If you’ve ever seen it, you know it has a very different “feel” than Bourdain’s later shows. In it, he is still a novice at both being a television host and navigating his celebrity. As such, he travels as many of us do when we first begin exploring the world: haphazardly and often making many mistakes.
As such, you’ll see many of the destinations he visited during A Cook’s Tour were revisited in later shows; for a perfectionist like Bourdain, this was undoubtedly an attempt to “get the destination right.”
During Season #1, there were 22 episodes of A Cook’s Tour and here are the locations …
Tokyo/Japan
Atami and Tokyo/Japan
Ho Chi Minh City/Vietnam
Mekong River/Vietnam
Phnom Penh and Siem Reap/Cambodia
Pailin/Cambodia and Tokyo/Japan
Porto and Douro Valley/Portugal
San Sebastián/Spain
Arcachon/France
Portugal and Southwest France
Saharan Morocco
Morocco Cities
Saint Petersburg/Russia
Saint Petersburg/Russia
Oaxaca/Mexico
Puebla/Mexico
Los Angeles, CA/USA
Napa Valley and San Francisco, CA/USA
New York City, NY/USA
New York City and Provincetown, MA/USA
Scotland/UK
London/UK
Season #2 had 12 episodes …
St. Marin/Saint Maarten
New Orleans/USA
Salvador/Brazil
Rio de Janeiro and Niteroi/Brazil
New York City/USA
Minneapolis/USA
Kansas City. Houston, and North Carolina/USA
Sydney/Australia
Melbourne/Australia
Chiang Mai/Thailand
Hanoi/Vietnam
Bangkok/Thailand and Singapore