Eating your way across the country on Food, Cooking and Travel
As winter turns to spring, you may find yourself coming down with a case of wanderlust. If so, a number of series on basic cable show where you where you can find some good eats in just about every corner of the country.
Such is the case with the Cooking Channel series known as “Cheap Eats,” which in the Wednesday, April 4, episode finds host Ali Khan in Boston, where he has a coffee-encrusted Bloody Mary burger for breakfast, Chinese dumplings for lunch and a lobster roll for dinner. Fine dining on a budget of $35 or less.
Over on the other side of the country on Travel Channel, two series check out what’s on the menu in San Diego. In the Tuesday, April 3, episode of “The Zimmern List,” host Andrew Zimmern takes viewers to some of his favorite off-the-beaten-path spots, including Little Italy for seafood and Barrio Logan for some authentic Mexican cuisine. And on Sunday’s “Best in Food,” it’s a visit to the San Diego Mac n’ Cheese Fest. Need we say more?
Working our way back east, Food Network’s “Vegas Cakes” opens its second season on Monday, April 2, with Sin City’s venerable Freed’s Bakery continuing to wow its customers with its fun, elaborate and delicious cake designs.
That same day on Travel, a second episode of “Best in Food” heads to Magnolia, Ark., for its annual World Championship Steak Cook-Off, in which competitors grill up rib eyes in the hopes of winning a $10,000 grand prize.
If Southern cuisine is what you desire, the Thursday, April 5, edition of Cooking’s “Carnival Eats” sees host Noah Cappe sampling the outsized, outrageous and unusual foods to be had at carnivals in the U.S. South, all with that down-home flair.
Guy Fieri is all over the map in the Friday, April 6, episode of Food’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,” in which he tries pizza that comes with a surprise in Lansing, Mich.; sandwiches that offer a taste of Philadelphia in Wilmington, N.C.; and Peruvian cuisine in Tucson, Ariz. Eclectic yet unpretentious dining at its finest.
And back on the East Coast in the Long Island, N.Y., kitchen of Ina Garten, the Sunday installment of Food’s “Barefoot Contessa” titled “Cook Like a Pro: Parmesan” finds the host preparing a spread of lemon parmesan chicken, broccoli rabe with sausage, parmesan chive smashed potatoes and celery and parmesan salad. And for dessert, canapes topped with parmesan shards, parmesan crisps and parmesan and chipotle popcorn. Delizioso!