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🇺🇸 Houston
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Every Place Bourdain Visited in Houston
4 placesMargaret Long Wisdom High School
Dunvale Road
Tony visited this high school when it was called Robert E. Lee Senior High School. It is the most ethnically diverse school in Houston, with 80% of students speaking a language other than English as their first language.
Burns Original BBQ
De Priest St
Tony had not been back in 15 years. He ordered "the torpedo-sized baked potato filled with cheddar cheese and chopped barbecue beef, and homemade link sausage. Slow cooked pork ribs, big ass beef ribs, and brisket."
La Guadalupana Bakery & Cafe
Dunlavy Street
A traditional Mexican and Tex-Mex restaurant. Tony ate Machaca Nortena ("marinated beef that's been pounded, rubbed with spices, then dried and shredded") and Migas (eggs mixed with fried and chopped corn tortillas).
Plant It Forward (Warehouse)
Willowbend Boulevard
Plant It Forward farmers Gertrude and Albert Lombo and Gimoule and Constant Ngouala hosted a meal with Tony and other friends. They had "slow-cooked stew of sausage, shrimp, dried mackerel, and Malabar spinach over fufu; then Texas beef brochettes marinated in chilies and cilantro and Maggi bouillon with a ratatouille made from produce grown right here."
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