awesomeness, and then there s charleston. the south is not important h . there are pockets of weirdness, awesomeness and then there is charleston. for some time now important things have been happening with food, a lot of them having to do with this guy. found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder [ music ] la la la la la what are we drinking? beer? harder stuff? what s going on? i usually go with a budweiser and a jagermeister. budweiser and jagermeister. what are we drinking? beer, hard stuff? what s going on? i usually go with budweiser and yeager meister. any notion of going local right out the window. chairs. the first one is never good. the first one is never good. it gets easier after the first one. this is not my first time to charleston, as you know. i did a show here before and i am still taking heat about it and apparently i really upped the first time i came here. i made a number of errors, apparently none mo
anthony: the south is not a monolith. there are pockets of weirdness, awesomeness, and then there s charleston. where for some time now important things have been happening with food. a lot of them having to do with this guy. [ laughter ] i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la anthony: what are we drinking? beer? we drinking harder stuff? what s going on? sean: i usually go with a budweiser and a jagermeister. anthony: budweiser and a jagermeister? so any notion of going local right out the window. sean: yeah. bartender: two jagers? anthony: uh, yeah, two jagers. yeah. cheers. good to see you again, man. sean: cheers, man. the first one s never good. the first one is never good. but it gets easier after the first one. anthony: so, look, um, this is no
reporter: his restaurant, fig , was one of the first and most important on the charleston scene, determined to source local products that you used to find everywhere. as much as i would like to illustrate solid grounding and traditional ingredients with my order, i could not resist the soft sell crabs which are in season with pasta and shaved. which i would slit my best friends broke for. that is beautiful. when you had your first forkful of proper rice, was there an instinct to go out and bludgeon the rest of the world? i did not run up and down the streets of charleston. it was tough to dislodge people here. i just went straight to san francisco and i gave away tons of product. guess what, they went crazy. slow baked black bass, anson
compelled to answer? glenn: i m a cuisine whore, you know? i think that culture is interactive with cuisine, as soon as you look at cuisine, you re looking at politics. you re looking at medicine. you re looking at the advanced thinking. anthony: i ll agree with you that there is nothing more political than food. glenn: you got it. anthony: chef mike lata s restaurant fig was one of the first and most important on the charleston scene. determined to source the kind of local products that you used to find everywhere in the low country. as much as i d like to illustrate that solid grounding and traditional ingredients and preparations with my order, i could not resist the soft shell crabs, which are just in season. with a pasta and shaved bottarga, which frankly, i d slit my best friend s throat for. glenn: wow, that looks great. anthony: yeah. glenn: that s beautiful. anthony: it s sweet. when you had your first forkful of proper rice is there an instinct to go out and s
for. glenn: wow, that looks great. anthony: yeah. glenn: that s beautiful. anthony: it s sweet. when you had your first forkful of proper rice is there an instinct to go out and sort of bludgeon the rest of the world into understanding what you have just come to understand. glenn: i did not run up and down the streets of charleston. it was tough to dislodge people here so i just went straight to san francisco and i gave away tons of product. and guess what? they went crazy. anthony: slow baked black bass, anson mills farrow, ramps in season, and lettuces. and this ode to all things glenn is responsible for bringing back. heirloom rice and peas, suckling ossabaw pig and chicken confit with carolina gold rice. oh, that s good. glenn: isn t that great? this is phenomenal. these peas are killer. anthony: i m hitting the rice next.