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 learns how barbecue can boost brainpower, discovers Korean barbecue is anything but, and explains why barbecue brisket may be blessed.

Food: Fact or Fiction?

Backyard BBQ

Michael McKean contemplates ceviche, gazpacho, and what the cake in strawberry shortcake really is.

Summertime

Michael McKean fans the flames of some fiery hot foods and discovers flaming-hot vindaloo may have once been far less combustible, wasabi isn't always what it seems, and jerk chicken is good at keeping ghosts away.

Fire in the Hole

Michael McKean is finding out how poke started cooking without gas, why the Mai Tai became tied to tiki bars, and if Hawaiian pizza is from the north.

Paradise Nosh

Michael McKean discovers if a classic cobbler helped Lewis and Clark, whether Girl Scout Cookies can save the planet, and if urban foraging can create happiness.

Into the Wild

Tea time, including espionage's role in obtaining English breakfast, the chemistry of the egg salad sandwich, and matcha tea.

Tea Time

Michael McKean is all berets and baguettes as he digs into a few of France's most fantastic feasts; he crosses the pond to see if crepes could nearly kill a king, if coq au vin was once colloquial and if the curve in croissants can slow one's roll.

Bon Appetit

Michael McKean spells out a solution to the Great Depression using alphabet soup; keeping the doctor away with gummy bears; finding out how the bento box ditched its suit and tie for the sandbox.

Play with Your Food

Michael McKean solves the Cuban Missile Crisis with chop suey, runs the redcoats out with cornbread and keeps the peace with a little kimchi; these are all dishes worth fighting for.

War and Peace

Host Michael McKean has a date with Lady Luck and is ready to go all-in on some Vegas eats; he'll find out how prime rib lured others to Sin City; why prohibition poured a shrimp cocktail; whether there's a strategy to beating a buffet.

Vegas, Baby!

Michael McKean discovers that guacamole wouldn't be good without a mailman, queso almost started a civil war, and chocolate fountains are full of physics.

Dip It Good

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

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

S4 E14 | Play with Your Food