Charleston

Bourdain ate: slow-cooked barbecue with sliced white bread and coleslaw Lunch dates: restaurant owner Rodney Scott and Sean Brock

Bourdain ate: soft-shell crab with pasta and shaved bottarga, heirloom rice and peas with suckling pig and chicken confit over Carolina Gold rice Dinner date: Glen Roberts, owner of heirloom grain company Anson Mills

Dinner at Ashley Green’s house Bourdain ate: local blue crab with shrimp butter, soft-shell crab and conch with peanut stew, Carolina Gold rice, and sautéed squash and zucchini Dinner dates: Gullah chef BJ Dennis, Ashley Green, and Sean Brock

Chef Sean Brock introduced Tony to the wonders of the Waffle House, the only place for late night eats in the area. They had pecan waffles, patty melt cheeseburger, green salad with Thousand Island dressing, thin-cut pork chops, T-bone steak, hash browns

Bourdain ate: Ossabaw Island country ham with bread-and-butter pickles, old-fashioned oyster pie, shrimp and grits, pit beans with Carolina Gold rice, grilled whiting, suckling pig, and creamed corn with cornbread Lunch dates: Sean Brock and actor Bill Murray

Bourdain drank: beer, Jägermeister, Brock’s 1991 Stitzel-Weller bourbon Drinks date: Sean Brock, executive chef at Husk

Tony ate with Fig owner and executive chef Mike Lata, Rebellion Farm owner Jeff Allen, and Sean Brock. They had barbecued turkey, pickled pigs’ feet and collard greens, barbecue coleslaw, potato salad with ramps, baked red peas, mac and cheese.