A couple of weeks ago Alton Brown’s newest show, Feasting on Asphalt began airing on the Food TV channel. Alton Brown has taken to the road on a motorcycle, touring the older highways (avoiding the big interstates). He stops along the way to popular local restaurants. We learn a brief history of the area, we sometimes hear the story of the business and we are sometimes introduced to the owner. Alton and his teammates (photographer, camera operator, etc.) join him in a meal, we see it, hear it described and watch them eat it.
Each episode is one hour in duration. The show has been repeating many times, with new episodes airing each Saturday night.
Alton Brown is one of our family’s favorite TV food personalities; we watch (and sometimes re-watch) Good Eats with Alton Brown (and we make some of the recipes also).
Yes, we watch his shows as a family. Yes, my children watch cooking shows with us. Yes, my children like him and the show also. Alton Brown is his usually funny self on this show and we are often left with watering mouths and a desire to quickly travel to that place to eat that delicious thing (well, not the pickled pig foot).
We enjoy the show because it is a celebration of slow food, or at least food created by individuals or families. The show is definitely not about commercial restaurant franchises. This show celebrates the uniqueness of local food, typical road food, not gourmet stuff.
If you are a foodie this show will be fun for you to watch if you are getting sick of food shows that recreate gourmet recipes from famous restaurants. As I said before some of the food is very basic and home style or it may be traditional for the area.
Note: not all of the food is healthy. This is not a health food show!
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