something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la ♪ sha la la la la la ♪ sha lala la ♪ >>> in bahia you find yourself in the heart of the heart of brazil, where the magic comes from. if you want to get there, just follow the sound of the drums. this is salvador de bahia, city of 3 million people, first capital of brazil. the wellspring for everything african and spicy. where things seem to just sway and move constantly. it's a place where everybody is sexy, where even the ugly people are hot. unsurprisingly, this is where artists come from. african spiritualism, occult magic, candomble, and capoeira. >> caipirinhas. >> caipirinha. >> did i mention caipirinhas? they do those here, too. i like them. i like them a lot. >> what's magical about this cocktail is the first taste, it's like i don't know, man, it's a little too something. then like that second sip, it's like oh, that's kind of good. then the third sip, it's where are my pants? fortunately, food in these parts tends to be, shall we say, hearty. for instance, a delightful meal of fried meat with plenty of a

found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la ♪ ♪ sha laa ♪ >>> ah, the storybook kingdom of grenada. one of the oldest, most complex, magically surreal places in spain. and one of the most beautiful. grenada is tucked against the sierra nevada mountains of andalucia in southern spain. it's not like barcelona. it's not line san sebastian. it ain't madrid. any reasonably sentient person who looks at spain, comes to spain, eats in spain, drinks in spain, they're going to fall in love. otherwise, there's something deeply wrong with you. spain is the sort of place that never really made any sense anyway, and in the very best possible way. this is the country that gave us the spanish inquisition. also anarchy. this is where devout catholicism mixes with surrealism, modernist cuisine with traditional tapas. christianity and islam shared space and traded places. the effects of influences of all those things are right here to see. you can almost look back through time and through the mists of history and see the phoenicians marching up across the v

found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ sha la la la la ♪ ♪ sha la la la la la ♪ sha lala la la la >>> holy mother of santa muerte, please protect my stash of cocaine. let it not be interfered with by the cops, or the competition. let any who would mess with me be killed. my enemies destroyed. please forgive us our sins, for they are many. so is business good? i mean, are there more murders, particularly narco murders? >> every day, mexico wakes up to count the dead. they are, after all, left out to be seen. often with a helpful note, identifying who done what and generally speaking, why. there is a language to the never-ending violence, a coded message in the twists and marks >> every day, mexico wakes up to count the dead. they are, after all, left out to be seen. often with a helpful note, identifying who done what and generally speaking, why. there is a language to the never-ending violence, a coded message in the twists and marks of the bodies. and valente rosas is one of many documenting them for the press. this is what he does every night, rides around waiting for

found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la ♪ sha la la la la la la la la la la la la ♪ >> it's one of the most beautiful places in europe, a place whose roots are very much the roots of the town where i live, but somehow, i've never been able to get it right. to tell the story, any story of sicily. it's the biggest island in the mediterranean. two main towns of palermo and catania on opposite sides. i've done a show in palermo before. it was an epic goat rodeo, a failure of humiliating scale. this time i was going to get it right. there's the sicily we know from films, an evocative, deeply felt history that's not quite reality but cool anyway, right? there's the simple fact of its location, tucked away under the boot of italy, part of but not really part of that country. its own language, culture, its own history of norman, arab, spanish, roman, turkish, egyptian interlopers, all leaving their mark and their influence. i grew up in new jersey, which was pretty much sicily on the hudson. the italian-americans next door weren't from milan, i could tell

found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la ♪ ♪ sha la la ♪ >>> ah, the storybook kingdom of grenada. one of the oldest, most complex, magically surreal places in spain. and one of the most beautiful. grenada is tucked against the sierra nevada mountains of andalucia in southern spain. it's not like barcelona. it's not like san sebastian. it ain't madrid. any reasonably sentient person who looks at spain, comes to spain, eats in spain, drinks in spain, they're going to fall in love. otherwise, there's something deeply wrong with you. spain is the sort of place that never really made any sense anyway, and in the very best possible way. this is the country that gave us the spanish inquisition. also anarchy. this is where devout catholicism mixes with surrealism, modernist cuisine with traditional tapas. christianity and islam traded places, shared space. the effects and influences of all those things are right here to see. you can almost look back through time and through the mists of history and see the phoenicians marching up across the v

something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la ♪ sha la la la la la ♪ sha laa la la ♪ >>> colombia, ordinarily and for all too many years, when this country makes the news or appears in a film or a television drama, it's not for its looks, which are, i should say right up front, spectacular. it's not for its people who everyone i've ever met, anyway, warm, proud, generous and fun. or for its food, which is truly great. i don't know what this is, but it's good. food in this country is excellent. ♪ >> i'm no stranger to this place. generally speaking, it's a particularly vibrant mix of spanish, european, afro-caribbean, and indigenous people. these are deep waters, my friends, that no news story or episode of "miami vice" has ever come close to navigating. it is and always has been a fiercely, fiercely proud country, and its people yearn to see international coverage of something other than cocaine and violence, but that isn't a legacy that's easy to ignore. its decades of civil unrest have left vast swaths of colombia relatively unknown, even to its own citizen

something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la ♪ sha la la la la la ♪ sha lala la la la ♪ >> i'm in peru with this guy, eric ripert. >> he was looking at this, he went into the tree. >> that's funny. >> chef of the world famous restaurant le bernardin in new york. to look at where chocolate comes from, particularly our chocolate, the very expensive limited run designer chocolate bar business that eric got me into last year. so that's why we're in peru. but before we get all indiana jones we're spending some time in lima, as we like the capital city just fine. and we have, both of us, from previous trips, friends here. lima is the cultural hub and culinary capital of a country that has exploded in the last decade with scores of world class chefs, cooks and restaurants. it has long been considered to be one of the best food scenes in all of south america. >> good. >> how far away is the house? >> that's it. >> yeah. >> five minutes. >> one of our friends here is chef restaurateur, coque ossio, one of the best most successful chefs in the country. his family is s

something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la ♪ sha la la la la la ♪ sha lala la la la ♪ >> i'm in peru with this guy, eric ripert. >> he was looking at this, he went into the tree. >> that's funny. >> chef of the world famous restaurant le bernardin in new york. to look at where chocolate comes from, particularly our chocolate, the very expensive limited run designer chocolate bar business that eric got me into last year. so that's why we're in peru. but before we get all indiana jones we're spending some time in lima, as we like the capital city just fine. and we have, both of us, from previous trips, friends here. lima is the cultural hub and culinary capital of a country that has exploded in the last decade with scores of world class chefs, cooks and restaurants. it has long been considered to be one of the best food scenes in all of south america. >> good. >> how far away is the house? >> that's it. >> yeah. >> five minutes. >> one of our friends here is chef restaurateur, coque ossio, one of the best most successful chefs in the country. his family is s

something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la ♪ sha, la, la, la, la ♪ sha, la, la, la, la ♪ >>> you find yourself in the heart of the heart of brazil, where the magic comes from. this is the city of 3 million people. first capital of brazil. the wellspring for everything african and spicy. this is where artists come from. artists come from. african spiritualism, occult magic, candomble, and capoeira. >> caipirinhas. >> caipirinha. >> did i mention caipirinhas? they do those here, too. i like them. i like them a lot. >> what's magical about this cocktail is the first taste, it's like i don't know, man, it's a little too something. then like that second sip, it's like oh, that's kind of good. then the third sip, it's where are my pants? fortunately, food in these parts tends to be, shall we say, hearty. for instance, a delightful meal of fried meat with plenty of absorbent starch product like farofa, the perfect accompaniment to many, many caipirinhas. >> oh, excellent. obrigado. now we're talking. it's a tough town for vegetarians. oh, chorizo, good. i'll have six m

something good in this beautiful world ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la ♪ >>> for most people, paraguay is an empty space on a map of latin america. ♪ a country of only 6 million, where a vast percentage of the land is steaming hot jungle or a huge scrub desert known simply as the chaco. only a few large cities offer a respite from the oppressive heat. ♪ [ singing in foreign language ] >> 1,000 miles upriver from the atlantic ocean sits paraguay's remote capital city. known largely for being a post-war refuge for fleeing nazis and a long line of extremely unpleasant dictators, this place of all the places in the world is where my great, great, great-grandfather disappeared without explanation sometime in the 1850s. i'm told you are a man who can help me. how do you do? >> you are for the first time in the country? >> first time in paraguay, yes. >> lido-bar, has always been like central switchboard, a gathering place. ladies in orange vests cook and serve old-school, working class food to people from all walks of life. >> this place is very unique. i've b

♪ i'm looking good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la la ♪ sha la la la la laa la la >>> once upon a time in a land far, far away, there was a place, a very special place, a clean, orderly and nice place. usually i hate clean, orderly and nice. the air smells fresh and physically fit, statuesque blondes pedal through streets lined by old buildings and canals. i read something very disturbing on my way here. apparently, denmark is like the happiest place on earth. they actually keep stats on this. >> yes. >> apparently, denmark is far and away number one, the happiest, most content place on earth. >> well, the colleges are the same for everybody. >> free? >> free. that's un-american. >> that's socialism, isn't it? >> yes. i mean, here, that's not a bad word. >> okay, they pay, like, 60% of their earnings in taxes, but then they do get things like free health care. 52 weeks maternity leave on full pay. >> when i had my kids two rooms down, that's where the future king had his kids. >> there's no, like, beyonce suite? >> no. we're all there. we're all the same. th

something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la, la, la, la, la ♪ sha la, la, la, la, lat is it exactly about this place? over the past century, the system here, the tradition, whatever it is that took hold here churned out a tremendous number of the world's most important chefs, chappelle, bokuz, and as importantly, influenced nearly all the rest of them. why is this such a gastronomic capital? why here? why all of these great chefs? >> because lyon, it's really positioned between the north and the south. >> right. >> you are locked in between burgundy and rome. >> lee i don't know, the second chargest city in france, situated in the southeast of the country midway between the alps in the east and the mediterranean to the south. >> this was also a bottleneck when cars became the mode of transportation. >> it goes right to the heart of the idea, driving a destination on the way. >> completely. >> out of that system cams chefs like this guy, daniel boulud. like prince or madonna, he needs really only one name. in new york or anywhere in the chef world. daniel. the name of