'Moder11 Marvels' getting a revival
ATLANTA » Adam Richman's love for food is welldocumented courtesy of his breakout hit show on the Travel Channel "Man vs. Food," where he took on ridiculously American eating challenges, scarfing down gargantuan amounts of pizza, burgers and wings in painfully brief amounts of time.
The Emory University graduate, who lived in Atlanta for six-plus years in the 1990s, retired from that job after four years in 2012 and has since dabbled in other healthier projects for Travel Channel, NBC, BBC and Facebook Watch, to n a me a few.
Now, he's working with one of his favor ite networks, History, and has rebooted the network 's old staple "Modern Marvels." The original show, which ran nearly 700 episodes from 1992 to 2015, was narrated by different men over the years and cover ed every topic under the sun, from the Empire State Building to balloons to monster trucks.
Richman hosts the revived version, which debuted this past Sunday, and he appears on camera and interacts with the subjects.
It's being paired with Season 2 of "The Food That Built America," which focuses on the history of famous American brands and the entrepreneurs that created them, like Cheetos, Oreos and Pizza Hut. Richman is an expe rt on that show as well The early "Modern Marvel" episodes are all focused on food. (Future "Modern Marvels" will be linked with spin-off shows such as "The Machines That Build America" and "The Toys That Built America.")
"I can say 'The Food That Built America' is about the legend," Richman said in an interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution '"Modern Marvels' is about the legacy."
While Richman fashions himself as a food expert, he said he is no Alton Brown. He is more a food enthusiast, readily apparent while he's, say, sampling mint chocolate chip ice cream at a Thrkey Hill Ice Cream plant with unalloyed joy.
"I am the audience," he said. "I am a cypher for you:•
"The Food That Build America" airs at 6 p.m. on Sundays on History, followed at 7 p.m. by "Modern Marvels."