TV Recaps Reviews

Tony Bourdain lands in Ecuador and the first thing he’s interested in is eating, of course. His local guide Santiago takes him to La Esquina for a breakfast of calf fetus soup and bull penis stew. Ecuador has lots of stew type meals and Tony is a big fan of stews. Tony tries a local tripe soup and swears he is in heaven, he says it looks ugly but tastes great.

Tony watches as guinea pig is roasted over a grill in an outdoor market. Tony eats a roasted guinea pig and really enjoys it. Tony quips of the guinea pig meat “if everybody knew how good they were, classrooms around the country would be in danger”.

The next meal Tony tries are local favorites la calderada and colonche. La calderada is a seafood chowder with crayfish, prawns, crabs, and mussels. Colonche is a seafood dish filled with crayfish and plantain and covered in peanut curry sauce.

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You’ve heard of antique hunters? American Pickers, a new show on the History Channel, features what we might call junk hunters, but its not junk to them. Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz of Antique Archaeology are pickers who recycle American antiques. Antique pickers are antique dealers with a set method for finding collectible memorabilia. A picker looks for collectibles others may think of as junk, yet when cleaned up collectors will buy those collectibles for a lot of money.

Driving the backroads coast to coast, Mike and Frank transform old items considered junk into collectibles. The pickers search properties and have leads on old collectibles that collectors are looking for. Pickers find everyday items in people’s garages, junkyards, attics, basements and barns. The pickers meet everyday people who are eager to sell them their junk and not so interested customers who won’t sell their possessions for anything. There is a lot of chat, bargaining and pricing before the pickers get their prize

The pickers meet collectors and regular folk along the way who share with the pickers their unique stories and historic information about the found items. If you like history and antiques it can be fun to see rooms full of possible treasures each outing produces. The pickers generally use leads to prime pickers locations from their assistant Danielle, while at other times they see found items piled up around someone’s barn and knock on the door to see if they can strike a deal.

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Food Network’s show The Best Thing I Ever Ate showcases places where famous chefs eat when they aren’t cooking. The show gives you the scoop on cafes, diners, famous eateries, restaurants, holes-in-the-wall and and little known places real foodies eat, enjoying the best dishes in the country. The Best Thing I Ever Ate is the ultimate guide to food recommended by chefs and foodies who spend their lives obsessed with food.

The show features a wide variety of foods, including best snack foods, best meat dishes, dishes with bacon, best pizzas, best burgers, food obsessions, holiday foods, best fried foods, best BBQ, best chocolate, best sweets, and other tempting treats.

One of your favorite TV chefs may be featured on the show. Chefs who have shared their opinion on their favorite foods includes Aaron Sanchez, Bobby Flay, Michael Symon, Ted Allen, Giada De Laurentiis, Guy Fieri, Paula Dean and Tyler Florence.

Besides the critiques by the chefs and foodies, The Best Thing I Ever Ate lets the viewer in on the best places to eat across America. If a chef tells you this is the best dish they have ever eaten, it is a pretty good recommendation for checking out a restaurant located in your area. You can find locations for the dishes featured on the show listed under the show title at Food Network’s website.

Watch The Best Thing I Ever Ate On Food Network on Fridays at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT

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