Anthony Bourdain's New Cuba Episode Shows an Island in Transition


Skift Take

"Parts Unknown" remains CNN's highest rated show. Americans and others from around the world will learn what Cuba can offer travelers that may be different from what they've been told in the past. Tourists from outside the U.S., of course, have freely visited Cuba for many years.

This Sunday Anthony Bourdain will invoke the flavors of Cuba, a country slowly opening up to the U.S. but still largely unknown to most Americans, with the Season 6 premiere of his "Parts Unknown" series. Skift was given access to the show prior to its airing on September 27. Bourdain became one of the first U.S. TV show hosts to visit the island nation 90 miles off the coast of Florida since President Obama told the world last December the U.S. would normalize relations w