Preview: Season 2 | 3m | Video has closed captioning.
Travel with acclaimed chef and James Beard Award-winning host Pati Jinich from California to New Mexico along the US-Mexico border as she shares meals with borderlanders, celebrates all walks of life, and reflects on the melding of cultures.
Aired: 02/10/23
Expires: 02/10/25
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(soft intense music) - [Pati] A defining feature of every country is its borders.
But the lines are never as static as they appear.
The modern-day line between the U.S. and Mexico has rested here.
A 1,951-mile stretch from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico.
Really?
I want to explore what happens to the people who live, love, dream in the spaces in between.
You gonna give me a ride?
- Sí.
- Let's do it.
(speaking in Spanish language) - Woo-hoo.
I'm Pati Jinich.
Oh my god.
It's so spicy.
(woman laughing) - [Chef] Uno, dos... tres.
(dough slapping) - I'm a chef, a writer, an immigrant.
(meat sizzling) I'm about to eat two pounds of a burrito.
In season two of La Frontera, I'm exploring from the Pacific coast to California and back.
To New Mexico and Chihuahua.
- I will hope for them that they hold on to faith.
(soft tranquil music) - [Pati] A place where the terrain is diverse as its people.
Fronterizos.
- It means that we're always straddling that border.
We're taking the best from both cultures and merging it into our own.
- [Pati] The alchemy of which they are born produces the most inspiring people and unexpected stories.
(soft singing) - You touched my heart.
It was beautiful.
- Thank you.
(children laughing) - [Pati] This is no doubt a place of continuous struggle.
(speaking in Spanish language) - Let me help you with water.
- The idea of just families and people making this journey and perishing, and it's a preventable death.
This is not meant to happen.
- [Pati] But also, of unprecedented possibilities.
Our world of kindness, wonder, and creativity.
- And so we want to welcome the Coro Gay Tejas to our family.
(people clapping) - So how did you navigate your American-Mexican heritage?
- I feel like art helps me kind of explore those worlds.
I feel like it's almost like a dance.
(upbeat music) - Fronterizos have a saying, "Ni de aquí, ni de allá."
"Neither from here, nor there."
To be a borderland, there is to be a part of a third culture.
- So right along here is a good set of skunk tracks.
- One defined by resourcefulness.
This is where every salsa that you have tried began.
(speaking in Spanish language) - Collaboration and empowerment.
Uno, tres (laughs) I'm Pati Jinich.
And this is La Frontera.
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Savor the sights, sounds and flavors of the U.S.-Mexico border. Along the way, Pati shares meals with locals from all walks of life and reflects on the melding of cultures. You can enjoy some of the fabulous dishes from the show at home.
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