This trip, Guy Fieri's hittin' up some spots serving comfort food kicked up a notch. In Long Beach, Calif., the old school diner with a new school chef, cooking up home-style favorites like pot roast and scones with a twist. In Jackson, Wyo., the pizza joint slicing up mouthwatering pies topped with everything from pesto and chicken to spicy sausage and marinara. And in Monterey, Calif., the brewhouse crankin' out big time bar food like parmesan pretzels and short rib grilled cheese.
Mary Berg takes on the challenge of creating the most flavorful dishes from the fewest number of ingredients. Her Peach Bourbon Chicken features a golden caramelized peach pan sauce, and Red Pepper Roast Salmon includes a bright roasted pepper side salad with fresh pesto, olives and pine nuts. Mary's Zucchini Capellini saves on both ingredients and time, coming together in under 10 minutes, and her two-ingredient dessert, Affogato, is impossible to stress over with vanilla ice cream topped with espresso coffee.
Mary Berg gets the best of both worlds with recipes that mash ideas together to create something wacky, fun and delicious. She conquers the dinner table with Caesar Salad Roast Chicken, complete with a crispy coating and creamy garlicky goodness. Next, she takes inspiration from a fever dream to create a Taco Meatball Skillet with classic taco spices and toppings. For dessert, Mary levels up cereal treats with Crinkle Cut Chip Marshmallow Squares and gets thrice the delight from Cannoli Croissant Pudding.
We're in New England, the birthplace of the American Revolution, for some of our favorite food. From Bostonian classics like the Boston cream pie, to sticky buns that'll sway your loyalties, we're taking you on a tour of the best that New England has to offer. Whether it's for the Szechuan sliced fish in Chinatown or the ultimate roast chicken in Cambridge, when it comes to revolutionary food, you're going to want to put New England on your bucket list.
The teams face off in a "Reality Roast" game of culinary challenges inspired by iconic reality TV shows, testing their taste buds, technique and kitchen skills. Then, for the skill drill challenge, chefs Jeff Mauro and Antonia Lofaso teach the recruits to make an all-American breakfast. For the main dish challenge, things get smoking as the teams throw down on the grill with barbecue chicken. The two least successful recruits face a blind elimination challenge to make the ultimate breakfast sandwich.
Guy Fieri uncovers three joints puttin' a piece of history on the table: In New Orleans, an oyster bar where nothing's changed since 1919 and the deep fried oysters are still hand-shucked and dredged in Grandpa's original recipe; in Pittsburgh, a neighborhood dive where Mama Nadine's dishin' up roast beef smothered in gravy, fried baloney and Na's Pasta -- all from behind a bar; and in Nebraska, Big Mama's cookin' her Grandma's soul food in an old school cafeteria -- pull up a tray for collard greens, peach cobbler and Big Mama's take on fried chicken.
Tom Papa takes a trip to Philadelphia, where traditional roots run deep at local bakeries. At Termini Brothers, he learns the secret of their creamy, crunchy cannoli, and at Sarcone's, fourth- and fifth-generation bakers show him how to make savory, Sicilian-style tomato pie in a giant brick oven. Tom stops by Reading Terminal Market for a juicy roast pork sandwich and ooey-gooey sticky buns. Finally, the folks at Federal Donuts take Tom to sweet and savory heaven with funky doughnuts paired with perfectly crispy fried chicken.