Great American Adventures features more than 500 hours of scripted and unscripted content highlighting themes including southern cooking and DIY, while celebrating Great American traditions every day and every season.  

Great American Adventures

Michael McKean reveals flavors are not always what they appear, including how apple pie could go crackers, why seaweed is giving bacon a run for its money, and how texture can determine taste.

Food: Fact or Fiction?

Tasting Is Believing

Michael discovers how the casserole began as just a pan, why chocolate sheet cake is a Texas treasure, and when potlucks first became bring-and-share bashes.

Potlucky

Michael McKean digs into lovely layered feasts and discovers information about club sandwiches, tiramisu's link to coffee, and why London may lay claim to lasagna.

Layers of Flavors

Dishes from the deli, including how the bagel met cream cheese and lox, black and white cookies, and when pastrami was first put on rye.

Deli-licious

Michael McKean determines if Chicago deep dish is definitely pizza and if brownies are just fancy fair food, and sheds some light on saganaki's flames.

My Kind of Town

Michael McKean has gadgets and gizmos a'plenty, and he's ready to show them off; waffle irons were once incredible artists and the stand mixer almost went overboard; why refrigerators would have been left out in the cold if it wasn't for beer.

Gadgets and Gizmos

Michael McKean has things handled, finding out how appetizers found their footing during Prohibition, that a king turned tapas into a tableside treat and why food could really use your hands.

Finger Foods

Michael McKean uncovers what it takes to make turducken tick; how it takes more than magic to get soup inside soup dumplings; how cake and pie have come together in order to save the world.

Dishes in Disguise

Michael McKean goes on a spectacular journey of some super stuffed foods; whether or not bao are good enough to save our necks, if toasted ravioli are a big stuffed lie, and whether knishes could once land people in jail.

I'm Stuffed

Michael McKean reveals that cupcakes are edible equations and explains how the whoopie pie nearly caused a civil war; San Francisco sourdough bread.

Baked Goodies

Michael McKean is uncovering rhubarb pie's paranormal proclivities; a background check on ramen with its racy rap sheet; a pot of fondue to reveal its ties to a criminal cartel.

Wicked Good

Michael McKean calls foul on duck a l'orange with its so-called French origins; tuna melts; the bison burger's presidential ties.

Game Night

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Michael McKean delves into the myths and adages about food to prove or debunk long-standing stories.

S4 E8 | Finger Foods