Pati Jinich Explores Panamericana — Season 2
3 Episodes · Premiered October 26, 2026
In this season of PATI JINICH EXPLORES PANAMERICANA, audiences can look forward to a journey filled with surprising encounters, unforgettable flavors, and inspiring stories of reinvention. Along the way, Jinich discovers people embracing cultural traditions once nearly lost, reviving ancestral languages and ingredients, breathing new life into time-honored crafts, and finding fresh ways to celebrate where they come from. Reflecting our country's growing cultural fascination with heritage foods, handmade traditions, and stories rooted in place, PATI JINICH EXPLORES PANAMERICANA brings together music, poetry, sports, and community to reveal an American West that is vibrant, creative, and full of unexpected connections.
Episodes
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.
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.
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.