Alton Brown feasts on American roadside food in new book

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Alton Brown feasts on American roadside food in new book


Food Network's Alton Brown revisits his trip up the Mississippi on motorcycles, from New Orleans to Minnesota, in his new book "Feasting on Asphalt: The River Run." (Handout)

By Scott Rosenberg |scott.rosenberg@am-ny.com
amNew York

March 27, 2008

You can get almost anything in New York City. But according to Alton Brown, star of The Food Network's "Good Eats" and "Feasting on Asphalt," there's one thing that's missing, and there's nothing the city can do about it. Despite all the great restaurants, swanky dive bars and street-meat vendors dotting the concrete arteries of the city, you just cannot get authentic roadside food.

"I think there's probably a few places that if you put them on the highway, they might become the real thing," Brown said. "But that's just not what Manhattan's about."

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[Chefnot]

He's right, it's out there.