Food Shows

Two food shows that are must sees are Man v. Food on the Travel Channel - Wednesdays at 10 EST (new season starts tonight) and Top Chef on Bravo - Wednesdays at 9 EST - new season starts on 8/19. Set your TIVOs/DVRs!

On Man v. Food, the host (Adam) goes around to different towns and vists two restaurants to showcase their food. At a third restaurant, he takes part in a food challenge - things like, how many burritos can you eat or how quickly can you drink 15 milkshakes. Outrageous challenges that I would not partake in, although he did have to eat 15 dozen oysters in 1 hour which I would have LOVED. It's really a fun show and Adam is really likeable. Plus, you get to see fun restaurants to go visit on your travels.

Bill and I took a roadtrip down South a few weeks ago and one of our stops was to visit a friend in Atlanta. Sadly, we were in town for just a little over 24 hours so we only got to eat 3 meals but we definitely made the most of what we ate. One stop was Vortex (featured on Man v. Food naturally) known for their killer burgers.....literally. One burger is the Double Coronary: Topped with two fried eggs, four slices of American cheese, and 5 slices of bacon, with two grilled cheese sandwiches replacing the buns. GRILLED CHEESE SANDWHICHES FOR THE BUNS!!!! Are you even comprehending this??? No, as (un)appetizing as that sounds, we did not get this burger. Instead we ordered the Blue 'Shroom Burger (blue cheese and shrooms) and....wait for it.....the Elvis Burger. Yep! You guessed it - peanut butter, fried bananas and bacon. It - Was - Awesome! Honestly, it was better than the shroom burger. I won't lie, we're pretty fearless when it comes to our food but even we were thinking we were insane to even consider trying it. But man-oh-man was it good and we can't wait to make it again at home. We think the bananas may have really been plantains but whatever, I'm sure we'll like it either way.

Another Atlanta highlight was cheesy grits which turned into a theme throughout our trip. We're trying to find coarse stone ground grits here up north but no luck so far. We might have to breakdown and order them online which I really don't want to have to do - unless someone knows of a brand to buy and where?