TV series · 2025 · Running
Pati Jinich Explores Panamericana
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Pati Jinich's life's work has been focused on building bridges between her two beloved countries – her homeland of Mexico and her new home the United States. In this docuseries, the acclaimed chef and James Beard Award winner expands her lifelong mission to uncover cultural connections throughout the Americas and how they enrich each other. Pati embarks on a journey inspired by the Pan-American Highway, a series of roads and a symbol of connection and collaboration extending from Alaska to Argentina.
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Season 13 episodes · 2025
- 01 Alaska - Wild Harvest Wed 30 Apr 2025 PatI travels the Pan-American Highway and starts at the one of northern most points of Alaska in Utqiagvik and learns of subsistence life of the indigenous people and individuals who moved here from the lower 48.
- 02 Juneau & Whitehorse - Sister Cities Wed 7 May 2025 Pati continues on the Pan-American Road, where she arrives in Juneau and talks with several Filipino Americans and what has drawn their ancestors to arrive in Alaska, and also Juneau's sister city of Whitehorse, Canada.
- 03 Alberta - Canada's Changing Heartland Wed 14 May 2025 Pati makes her way to the Canadian Province of Alberta and learns of the cowboy culture in Calgary and Edmonton and how it shapes the lives of those who live there.
Season 23 episodes · 2026
- 01 Montana & Wyoming - Small Acts, Wide Ripples Tue 27 Oct 2026 Jinich enters the United States through Montana and Wyoming. On the Blackfeet Reservation, buffalo and a nearly lost language are returning. Farther south, women entrepreneurs and a community wool mill are rebuilding rural economies and demonstrating how one person's actions can strengthen an entire community.
- 02 New Mexico & Colorado - Life Along the Rio Airs Tue 3 Nov 2026 Jinich journeys from Denver's jazz-filled Five Points neighborhood south into the New Mexico desert, following the Rio Grande from near its source. Along the way, she discovers music, farming, adobe building, faith and traditions that have endured for centuries.
- 03 Arizona - Abundance in the Desert Airs Tue 10 Nov 2026 In Arizona's Sonoran Desert, Jinich encounters Chinese chorizo, street poetry, Desert Noir music, ancient crops and a baseball team uniting Indigenous players from across the country. Together, these stories reveal a desert defined not by scarcity, but by abundance.
