The BEST episodes of A Cook's Tour season 2
Every episode of A Cook's Tour season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of A Cook's Tour season 2!
A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines is a New York Times bestselling book written by chef and author Anthony Bourdain in 2001. It is Bourdain's account of his world travels — eating exotic local dishes and experiencing life as a native in each country. The book was simultaneously made into a television series featuring Bourdain for the Food Network.
#1 - Elements of a Great Bar
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/21/2003
Join Tony on his quest to characterize the perfect bar. With him, discover the importance of a "maniacal bartender", the proper chemical makeup of drinks, the joys of seedy dive-bars and the need for late night snacks.
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#2 - The Struggle for the Soul of America
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/28/2003
Tony travels to the grain belt capitol, Minneapolis, to inspect the conflict between creative independent operators and generic franchises. Beginning in the food nightmare within the Mall of America, Tony vows to find good cuisine within the city.
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#3 - The BBQ Triangle
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/13/2003
Which style of BBQ reigns supreme-Kansas City, Houston or North Carolina? Tony journeys to all three, judging the secrets behind sauces, wood pits, and slow smokers.
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#4 - No Beads, No Babes, No Bourbon Street
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/28/2003
In New Orleans, Tony catches a Bayou alligator, cools off with a world famous sno cone, gets in trouble with the law, eats jambalaya with a dancing chef and, finally, relaxes to some local jazz.
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#5 - Mad Tony: The Food Warrior
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/4/2003
Chef Tony Bourdain embarks on a pilgrimage through Australia so he can indulge in a meal made by one of the world's best chefs, Tetsuya Wakuda. When Tony's car breaks down in the outback, he is found wandering about by a veteran of the bush who feeds him a slap-up meal of bush tucker, including kangaroo and wattleseed-bush tomato. Days, miles and many Australian meal later, Tony finds himself unable to describe Tetsuya's delicious and well-earned meal.
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#6 - Down Under: The Wild West of Cooking
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/2/2003
Melbourne boasts a bunch of hard-living, good-natured and eccentric food-lovers-Tony's kind of people. In search of the outlaws of food, Tony explores a pasteurization-free cheese factory and an old-world cured jamon workshop. Alas, no trip to Australia is complete without an authentic "barbie", so Tony settles down with new found friends for an afternoon meal of surf n' turf.
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#7 - Let's Get Lost
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/16/2003
Jumping into a Thai tuk tuk taxi, Tony attempts to soak up Thai culture and get lost in the cuisine of Chiang Mai. From spicy soups and noodles in the busy city marketplace to the hospitality and delicate salads of the countryside, Tony learns to appreciate all things Thai.
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#8 - Food Tastes Better with Sand Between Your Toes
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/21/2003
In an attempt to escape the stress of city life, Tony visits the island of St. Martin. In this Caribbean paradise, Tony eats a healthy Rastafarian meal with a freedom fighter, helps prepare grub for a food caravan, discovers foodstuffs not available at American supermarkets and, finally, relaxes at a beach bar.
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#9 - Singapore: New York in Twenty Years
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/18/2003
Chef Tony Bourdain decides to find the real Singapore with its multicultural restaurants and markets. He samples prescription food dishes, explores the Geyland Serai Market, rides the clean and efficient subway and sees Singapore's diversity in the "Little India" neighborhood.
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#10 - A Mystical World
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/7/2003
Known as Brazil's capital of happiness, Salvador da Bahia offers fruitful local markets and rich Bahian cusine: fried shrimp, palm oil, chili peppers, and coconut. Here, Tony takes part in a traditional ceremony and experiences the culinary talents of the famous Bahian, Chef Dada.
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#11 - How to Be a Carioca
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/14/2003
What is a Carioca? These natives of Rio are lovable scamps who somehow find ways to avoid work altogether, preferring the beach, flirting and hanging out at restaurants and bars. Tony, under the tutelage of an exemplary Carioca, gives the lifestyle a try, enjoying a savage tan, Brazilian barbecue and one too many caipirinhas!
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#12 - My Friend Linh
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/30/2003
Tony returns to his beloved Vietnam to visit his friend, Linh, for the Vietnamese lunar New Year holiday, Tet. Together, the friends enjoy the holiday and indulge in all the exotic delicacies Vietnamese culture offers.
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#13 - Thailand: One Night in Bangkok
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/27/2003
A spontaneous layover in Bangkok leads Tony into the city, where he tries strange meals of deep fried frog skins and pla rah-a fish paste that has fermented for three months to a year.
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