-John Ed Pearce
When I heard that Tony Bourdain had been traipsing around my hometown in Missouri, I'll admit I cringed a little. Here was my journalistic hero in the town that had raised me. I wondered where he'd go and what he'd see. And most of all, I wondered if he'd be able to get a true sense of Southwest Missouri in a whirlwind shooting spree (both film shoots and hunting shoots as it were) over the course of a few brief days.
