Premieres Sept. 26, 2025. Pati returns to her hometown, Mexico City, and joins historian Erika Zúñiga to trace its history from Templo Mayor to Bellas Artes, with a stop for churros at the legendary El Moro. Later, she meets journalist Enrique Acevedo at Central de Abastos, the world’s busiest market, where they share delicious tacos de lengua and reflect on the city’s vibrant present and future.
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Premieres Oct. 3, 2025. Pati steps into Mexico City’s creative scene at El Volador, where Francisco Enríquez shows how his team builds the towering art behind Day of the Dead parades and festivals. Over alambre, they reflect on the power of imagination. Later, Pati visits papel picado artist Yuriria Alfaro and her team to learn about the history of punctured paper and share fish tamales that honor its enduring spirit.
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Premieres Oct. 10, 2025. Pati visits Xochimilco’s canals to learn about the ancient chinampas and their modern-day preservation. In a traditional smoke kitchen, Chef Raúl Jimenez prepares pipián verde and discusses conservation. She later joins Francisco Salvador and Omar Espinoza, who work to protect the endangered axolotl, and ends the day at Francisco’s home, to reflect on local resilience over a meal of chile relleno.
Premieres Oct. 17, 2025. Pati rides the Iztapalapa Cable Bus with urbanist Paola Montes to see how design and transit are reshaping Mexico City. After tacos at Taquería Los Cuñados, she meets Diego Cárdenas at Bamboocycles to build a bamboo bike and talk about sustainable cities. They end the day with street tlacoyos and a look at how community and creativity drive urban change.
Premieres Oct. 24, 2025. Pati meets photographer Nuria Lagarde at Mercado de Jamaica to talk art and daily life among stalls of flowers bursting with color. Later, she visits author Laura Esquivel to reflect on Magical Realism and storytelling’s power to shape identity. They share pan dulce and a chocolate drink inspired by Laura’s work, celebrating how art and identity shape Mexico City’s creative soul.
Premieres Oct. 31, 2025. Pati visits Gris in Tlatelolco to meet Gabriela Rojas and reflect on the neighborhood’s tragic past and hopeful future. They share chamorro de cerdo before Pati heads to Salón Los Ángeles, where Miguel Nieto guides her through the rhythms and stories of danzón. Surrounded by friends, they toast with a twist on the michelada, celebrating joy and resilience in the city.
Premieres Nov. 7, 2025. Pati travels to Milpa Alta and meets Chef Jorge Córcega to harvest and char nopales over an open flame, learning time-honored techniques tied to the land. She later visits Luis Alvarado and his family, known for their mole, a culinary treasure bursting with flavor as rich as its history. Over a shared meal of mole and nopales, they celebrate the traditions that nourish Milpa Alta’s community.
Premieres Nov. 14, 2025. Pati visits Rústico in Cuauhtémoc, where brothers Iván and Germán Ortiz share their love of traditional baking over a delicate tart made with goat cheese and fig. In Colonia Roma, she meets Kiren Miret at Casa Morgana to talk dreams, risks, and creativity while sampling bold ice cream flavors. A celebration of passion, tradition, and the people who pour their heart into every creation.
Premieres Nov. 21, 2025. Pati reconnects with her Jewish heritage in Mexico City alongside historian Mónica Unikel-Fasja, visiting places filled with childhood memories and history. Later, she joins her sister, Karen Drijanski, at her restaurant Niddo to cook, laugh, and reminisce over pancakes and chilaquiles, celebrating family, identity, and the stories that have shaped her life.
Premieres on PBS primetime April 29, 2025! Pati travels from the northernmost place in the US to the remote island community of Halibut Cove – discovering that subsistence living transcends all differences.
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Premieres on PBS primetime May 6, 2025! Pati explores the sister cities of Alaska’s capital, Juneau, and the capital of Canada’s Yukon Territory, Whitehorse. She finds a pioneering culture of artistry and entrepreneurship thriving alongside the unforgiving wilderness.
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Premieres on PBS primetime May 13, 2025! In Canada’s heartland, Alberta, Pati dives into cowboy culture and learns how thriving immigrant communities in Edmonton and Calgary are reshaping the Canadian identity.
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At the edge of Ship Creek in Anchorage, Alaska, Pati shares a picnic with local food writer and author Julia O’Malley to discuss what makes Alaska unique — and the challenges it now faces.
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Ever wondered what life is like in Canada’s remote Yukon Territory? Pati gets a glimpse into the life of a man who has lived close to the land and carries its history with him when she shares a meal with Tlingit elder and “Mr. Yukon 2024” Ron Chambers at Mount Logan Lodge.
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In the heart of Calgary in Alberta, Canada — on land where the Bow and Elbow rivers have long brought people together — another kind of gathering is taking place: a cultural movement stitched into fabric, design, and identity. Indigenous fashion is rising, and it’s more than style. It’s story.
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Just outside Calgary, Alberta — where the Caesar cocktail was invented in the 1960s — a bold new version of Canada’s unofficial national cocktail has gotten a smoky, meaty upgrade at Big Sky BBQ.
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In Ciudad Juárez, Pati joins in with a group of Pachuco dancers, who are passionately preserving this distinctive Prohibition-era culture’s traditions. Together they head to the iconic Kentucky Bar, rumored to be the birthplace of the margarita. Later, she savors an icon of Juárez’s food scene, the burrito, at Burritos El Compa where the Olivares are keeping their family legacy alive.
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For the indigenous Rarámuri people, long-distance running through Chihuahua’s majestic Copper Canyon is a way of life. Pati meets the Moreno brothers, who are famous for winning ultramarathons. In Huetosachi, community leader María Monarca teaches Pati about the art of cooking with corn in Rarámuri cuisine, from nixtamalization to a traditional dish known as “chacales.”
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In Chihuahua’s capital, Chihuahua City, Pati meets the first member of the Rarámuri people to become a world-famous pianist, Romeyno Gutiérrez, who teaches her the basics of Rarámuri music before taking her to his favorite barbacoa spot. Pati’s also invited into the home of Chef Ana Rosa Beltrán del Río to cook a few ancient Chihuahuan recipes and learn the art of drying chiles.
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Pati journeys to Casas Grandes to experience the preserved foods, or “conservas,” that sustained people during the Mexican Revolution. She meets a family that has lived for generations at Hacienda de San Diego, Mexico’s “White House” for a day after the battle of Casas Grandes, including Diana Acosta and her mother, Sara Ramírez, who still preserves food the way they did during the war.
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Pati saddles up for an exhilarating ride into the heart of Chihuahua’s ranch and rodeo life. She gets a lesson in roping and riding from rodeo champion Ricardo “Bubba” Nevárez and his friends, then is invited to a post practice carne asada. She also meets Chihuahua’s most influential cattle rancher, Álvaro Bustillos, at his Rancho El Arroyo, where the ranch cook serves up some cowboy delicacies.
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In Casas Grandes, Pati rides in style with local art curator Mayte Luján in her 1960s Cadillac. Mayte owns a bed and breakfast, Las Guacamayas, where she invites Pati into the kitchen to make chile con queso in impossibly soft flour tortillas. Later, Pati learns about another tasty export from Chihuahua, pecans, at Gustavo Vázquez’s farm, where his family has been growing them for generations.
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