article_snippet: My great-great-grandfather, Jean Bourdain, was one of My great-great-grandfather, Jean Bourdain.
article_snippet: I've looked for this mysterious ancestor before -- in Uruguay, with my younger brother Chris.
article_snippet: I thought I'd use the dubious quest for "The Missing Bourdain" as the spine of a show, a framework to investigate one of the least-known nations in the Americas.
article_snippet: In this week's "Parts Unknown" episode, I explore Paraguay (and my family's past) in similar nonlinear fashion.
article_snippet: What I found out -- about Paraguay, about my family -- surprised me.
highlights_snippet: Bourdain goes looking for the story of Bourdain long-lost great-great-grandfather in Paraguay .