Feasting on Asphalt

[bobman0330]

My Tivo recently captured this 4-episode miniseries starring Alton Brown, of Good Eats and Iron Chef America fame. (Disclosure: Alton Brown is my personal hero.) The program follows AB and his crew as they motorcycle from Isle of Palms, SC, to Los Angeles, avoiding interstates and chain restaurants in search of traditional and authentic road food.

When I first heard about this program, I was a bit skeptical. Sounded like 40 Dollars a Day on motorcycles, but without the cute alcoholic. Thirty minutes into the first episode, I was forced to completely revise my opinion. The show is astonishingly good. Although the primary focus is on individual restaurants, AB uses these discrete places to really illustrate the history of traveling and road food in this country. Learn all about this history of the diner, Colonel Sanders, and how Duncan Hines (the cake guy) started his career as the country's most influential down-market restaurant reviewer. There are also a number of affectingly genuine (and satisfyingly in-depth) interviews with some of the entrepreneurs and employees of the road food industry. And, of course, AB himself is his typical fount of nerdy humor and wit.

Bottom line: I can't recommend this show enough. Ten stars. Watch immediately.

[Bicycles_Biatch]

weren't you the guy who was just making fun of my "getting laid" tactics???

and now you post a thread about the exciting history of Colonel Sanders???

I must totally be in the dark about what women are looking for these days.

[bobman0330]

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weren't you the guy who was just making fun of my "getting laid" tactics???

and now you post a thread about the exciting history of Colonel Sanders???

I must totally be in the dark about what women are looking for these days.

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Read the Ariane thread, then you will think that joke makes more sense.

[GovmentCheese]

I dig Alton, but this show was just too short. 4 episodes? It was very cool, but I just wish there was more to it... I felt like he wasn't able to get into everything that much. I liked that it was pretty random looking, but if he were to just wander around.. experience stuff - then add the perspective later on in a studio - I'd watch it.

[MagicNinja]

I thought this was going to be about the movie american history X. Cringe.

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I thought this was going to be about the movie american history X

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'Sin City' came to mind for me.

[Khabbi]

[quoteRead the Ariane thread, then you will think that joke makes more sense.

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I agree... that joke in your getting laid thread was a well used joke if you are familiar enough with the other threads. I read his other thread and saw the joke... it made me chuckle on the inside.

[unfrgvn]

I am a huge Alton Brown fan. Good Eats is sort of cooking for geeks. Having said that, I'll say that Feasting on Asphalt was not as good as I had hoped. My brother and I discussed it and decided it was a great way to get a cross country motorcycle trip paid for, but that the show was only mediocre. It does have an unexpected development towards the end.

[OneChipWarrior]

AB is my personal hero too. Good Eats is the best show on food network and most of TV.