Anthony Bourdain, right, and guide John Ruskey prepare to canoe down the Mississippi River. Bourdain recently went off the beaten path to explore the food and history of the Mississippi Delta.
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Bourdain cooks lunch over a driftwood fire on a sandbar along the Mississippi River.
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A run-down house in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Hip-hop artist PyInfamous performs a set at the Soul Wired Cafe in Jackson.
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A plate of sausage, cheese and peppers at the Lamar Lounge in Oxford, Mississippi, where Bourdain joined chef John Currence and a host of local writers for a whole-hog meal.
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A man walks past the Alamo Theatre on Jackson's historic Farish Street.
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Trains from Union Pacific pass through Jackson.
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A statue of Eudora Welty stands in downtown Jackson. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author was born in the city. She died in 2001 at age 92.
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Unknown Confederate soldiers are among the dead buried at the Greenwood Cemetery in Jackson.
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Po' Monkey's Lounge is located on a farm in an old sharecropper structure near Merigold, Mississippi. It's one of the last remaining juke joints.
