Feasting on Asphalt

If you haven't seen Feasting on Asphalt, I highly recommend getting Season 1 on DVD from Netflix, and watching Season 2 on the Food Network.

It's an Alton Brown series, where he and his crew ride cross-country on motorcycles (Season 1), sampling road food from Georgia to California. They avoid all chain food and more mainstream restaurants, in favor of diners. It's a fascinating program. In Season 2, which premiered this past weekend, they started in Venice, Louisiana, and will be following the Mississippi River northward.

So far this season, they've been sampling Cajun cooking. Gumbo, grilled alligator, crawfish, andouille, bread pudding, ice tea. They stopped at an alligator ranch, as AB was curious to see how they're raised. Turns out they're fed frozen nutria.

In Season 1, they ate a lot of BBQ, stopped at a custard place on Route 66, visited a tea house, and even ate a brain sandwich. Yep, a brain sandwich. In Indiana, I think it was, AB sampled a deep-fried pig brain on a bun -- sorta like a hamburger. Only more of a grey-matter burger.