Guy takes a camera crew to different places and spends about a week to get about 20 minutes worth of footage. He says that they visit a lot of places that never see the light of the television simply because each establishment must have three things; 1. Great food; 2. Kitschy atmosphere; 3. Something special.
But we don't have the time or patience to actually do what Guy does so we decided to leverage his work.
We went on the prowl to the food network web site and looked at what they had to document Guy's trips and we found out that the Food Network site was basically useless for anything but advertising the “Diners Drive-ins and Dives” television show and re-playing the most recent episodes.
But then we stumbled across http://www.flavortownusa.com/ which appears to be Guy's own site. It has full details of every place he as visited including a map,
a search engine, and the actual list of places with addresses and everything. We noticed that there was a pretty large concentration of sites right here in mid-America. We thought "We can actually do this without driving all across the nation". That's when it started feeling like this was real. It was actually going to happen. Our very own ROAD TRIP!
So EAT used that information and developed an itinerary which I will share with you next time.
Here is a tease:
