Roadfood: Discovering America One Dish at a Time is a new PBS TV show that aims to re-discover America’s regional culture through its iconic dishes. Our host, Misha Collins, will hit the highways and byways of America, exploring a uniquely American dish in each episode. Meeting local cooks, pit-masters, bakers, cafe owners, and proprietors of local eating establishments, Misha will explore the roots of a dish through these modern culinary folk artisans.
The peaks and the valleys. Find the essential episodes — and the ones to skip.
Brownsville, Texas, on the border of Mexico, is where you'll find some of the best tacos in the U.S., both in variety and quality. It's also a place where border politics have direct and immediate consequences.
Discover a dish that is truly unique to the United States, the Viet-Cajun Crawfish. This Asian-inspired food craze is also a story of Vietnamese refugee immigration.
Little Dominican Republic, located in Washington Heights, is a microcosm of the Dominican community in Manhattan, NY. This community is vibrant and truly alive with Dominican cuisine and culture.
This vegan based episode takes place in Los Angeles, the city of angels. Here Misha and the Roadfood team are exploring all of the possibilities of a new kind of fast food, plant based fast food. Los Angeles is a renowned cultural hub, drawing people of all backgrounds together and bringing new dishes like the acai bowl to the United States. Misha Collins travels into his own backyard to discover the acai bowl and explore why Angelenos are on the forefront of a burgeoning plant-based food movement and why this area is such fertile ground for creativity and innovation. Misha also meets up with "Support + Feed" founder Maggie Baird, "Supernatural" colleagues Ben Edlund, Ruth Connell and Rob Benedict, as well as local artist Randlett King Lawrence.
Each point is an episode, plotted in order. Colored bands mark season boundaries. Look for the rise, the plateau, or the decline.
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