Apr 18th, 2012 at 5:00PM:
Taking another look at popular destinations from an expert's point of view, "Park Secrets" premieres tonight on the Travel Channel. The new series shows secret adventures that we might not see in the guidebooks, along with great places to stay, eat and play.
In the premiere episode, "Bright Lights, Big City," viewers explore parks hiding in plain sight in some of America's favorite big ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Apr 18th, 2012 at 5:00PM:
Taking another look at popular destinations from an expert's point of view, "Park Secrets" premieres tonight on the Travel Channel. The new series shows secret adventures that we might not see in the guidebooks, along with great places to stay, eat and play.
In the premiere episode, "Bright Lights, Big City," viewers explore parks hiding in plain sight in some of America's favorite big ...Travel like Bourdain: the 'No Reservations' host gets his own travel app
Mar 7th, 2012 at 5:00PM:
Fans of Anthony Bourdain's no-holds-barred style of travel can rejoice because the next best thing to taking a trip with the famed Travel Channel host is finally here. Today, the Travel Channel launched a "Layover Guide with Anthony Bourdain," which offers tools to help travelers create their own Bourdain-inspired experiences.
Geared towards armchair travelers, or those with more of a "get ...Johnny Jet feature premiers on the Travel Channel, January 1st
Dec 30th, 2011 at 1:00PM: The last time I saw John DiScala – better known as Johnny Jet -- was at the JW Marriott tour in Chicago. Exhausted from a day long flight from Helsinki I wandered into a journalist's dinner at the freshly opened hotel and saw my old friend sitting among a group of eager young writers and polished senior management. As usual, he was lighting up the room and vivaciously engaging with the ...Got goat? A cultural exploration of the other red meat
Oct 10th, 2011 at 11:00AM: There are goat people, and then there...aren't. We're like dog people, except we can't carry the objects of our obsession in our purse. There aren't city parks dedicated to goats.
I grew up with goats because my brother and I raised them for 4-H. When we got our first dairy goat in the mid-'70's, my mom tapped her inner hippie, experimenting with making yogurt from the prodigious amounts of ...Andrew Zimmern to share travel recipes and tales for Food & Wine magazine
Oct 4th, 2011 at 9:00AM:
asdf Food & Wine magazine announced today the company will bring TV personality and chef Andrew Zimmern on board for a new weekly column, "Andrew Zimmern's Kitchen Adventures."
Known for his willingness to eat just about anything-insects, porcupine, you-name-it-Zimmern will forgo chowing down grotesque eats and instead show off his skills as a home cook. But never fear: the host of ...Vanilla Ice appears on Travel Channel's Man v. Food Nation tonight
Jul 6th, 2011 at 12:00PM: On the Travel Channel's Man v Food Nation, host Adam Richman explores the "big food" offerings of a different American city each week before facing off against a pre-existing eating challenge at a local restaurant. On tonight's episode, Richman visits Key West and the Florida Keys and got a surprise visit from host of DIY Network's The Vanilla Ice Project, Rob Van Winkle (aka Vanilla Ice).
In ...Travel Channel's Off Limits premiere tonight
May 16th, 2011 at 12:30PM:
On the new Travel Channel series, Off Limits, host Don Wildman makes it his mission to reveal some of the most amazing off-limits sites in the country.
Tonight's premiere episode, set in Wildman's home town of Los Angeles, shows the adventurer kayaking the LA River, risking fines and jail time, taking a film crew for a first-ever look inside the LA aqueducts, climbing one of the city's ...Host of Travel Channel's Bert the Conqueror, Bert Kreischer, shares his insane experiences
Apr 2nd, 2011 at 9:00AM:
Whether it's nature, wild animals, extreme heights, theme park rides or a foot race with his wife on his back, comedian Bert Kreischer will try to conquer almost anything on the Travel Channel's Bert the Conqueror. While not always triumphant, Kreischer is certainly an entertaining host and the show does an excellent job of showcasing interesting and unique thrills found at everything from ...Around the World in 80 Hours (of Travel TV): Part 4
Feb 24th, 2011 at 10:00AM:
Where does the Travel Channel take us? Rolf Potts embarks on a
one-week gonzo experiment to find out
AMERICA: IT'S WHERE FAT PEOPLE ARE MADE
Day 4, Hour 50: 9:25 am. The narrator of a show called Breakfast Paradise has just announced that he's found a restaurant that will indulge my "deepest cereal fantasies." An hour ago, at a Texas barbecue joint, the same narrator suggested ...NO RESERVATIONS: Bourdain to push limits on new season
Feb 24th, 2011 at 8:30AM: Anthony Bourdain charges back with an all new season of NO RESERVATIONS starting this Monday. In this seventh season of the Emmy award-winning Travel Channel program, Tony starts in Haiti to uncover beauty in the dark corners of humanity, a theme promised to be delivered throughout the new season.
Calling it as he sees it, Bourdain puts a new perspective on the situation in Haiti during a visit ...Roadkill cuisine: a guide to why and where you should pick up that possum
Feb 23rd, 2011 at 11:00AM: Reduce, reuse, recycle is hardly a new concept. Except when it's applied to roadkill. Oh, sure, backwoods folk, the itinerant, and gritty survivalist types have been making good use of roadside casualties for years. Slowly but surely however, the benefits of roadkill cuisine have been creeping into the public conscience.
Witness the popularity of The Original Roadkill Cookbook and its ilk, or ...Around the World in 80 Hours (of Travel TV): Part 3
Feb 23rd, 2011 at 10:00AM:
Where does the Travel Channel take us? Rolf Potts embarks on a
one-week gonzo experiment to find out
SAMANTHA BROWN NEEDS A DRINK
Day 3, Hour 36: 12:51 pm.
Just one day after having declared my infatuation with Samantha Brown, I'm beginning to feel like the love has faded. As with many relationships, our falling out has been a slow accumulation of irritants.
Since noon, Samantha ...Around the World in 80 Hours (of Travel TV): Part 2
Feb 22nd, 2011 at 10:00AM:
Where does the Travel Channel take us? Rolf Potts embarks on a
one-week gonzo experiment to find out
JACKASS COMMENTATORS AND DUBIOUSLY RANKED DESTINATIONS
Day 2, Hour 17: 9:04 am.
The first Travel Channel show of the day has already begun by the time I wake up and turn on the TV. As the picture tube slowly comes into view I can hear some jackass droning on about the gentle ...Around the World in 80 Hours (of Travel TV): Part 1
Feb 21st, 2011 at 10:00AM:
PRELUDE
Day 5, Hour 77: 9:53 pm.
Twenty-three hotel floors above the gritty neon splendor of downtown Las Vegas, I am nearing the end of a bewildering travel experiment: For the past five days, I have been watching the Travel Channel for the entirety of my waking hours, without ever changing the station or (save a few key occasions) leaving my hotel room.
My goal has been to create ...The 8 weirdest foods Andrew Zimmern has eaten (video)
Apr 20th, 2010 at 2:00PM: Bald-headed and brazen, Andrew Zimmern takes culinary risk-taking to new heights on his Travel Channel show, Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern. Zimmern has traveled the streets of Nicaragua to the state fairs of Minnesota to find the craziest edibles on earth. We cringe when we see him chowing down on iguana eggs, reindeer pizza and pig stomach tacos -- but he does it with such zeal that we keep ...
Talking Travel: Andrew Zimmern discusses bizarre foods
Apr 8th, 2010 at 11:30AM: Andrew Zimmern is best known as the host of Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern. But before he was traveling the globe eating glands, connective tissue and anuses, he was an acclaimed chef, writer and expert in Chinese cuisine. The new season of his Travel Channel program premieres later this month and, in anticipation of that, he chatted with us about a wide range of topics.
...Travel Channel to find new home
Nov 4th, 2009 at 2:00PM: The network for wanderers seems to be doing a bit of that itself these days. Cox Communications, which owns the Travel Channel, is shopping it around, with several companies expressing interest. So, will it wind up with Scripps Networks, which has the Food Network and HGTV? Or, could it wind up part of Rupert Murdoch's empire over at News Corp?
So far, Scripps seems to be in the lead, with ...Anthony Bourdain creates animated web series
Oct 31st, 2009 at 11:00AM: I'm a huge fan of Anthony Bourdain and I love No Reservations. A show that combines travel to places both exotic and familiar, pure rockstar gluttony and classic Bourdain snark - how could it go wrong? So when I heard that Bourdain was creating an animated web series for the Travel Channel (relax, it will NOT be taking the place of No Reservations) I figured it couldn't be anything less than ...
The mail jumpers of Lake Geneva
Sep 14th, 2009 at 12:30PM:
For the residents who live on waterfront property in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, the daily mail delivery comes by boat. The U.S. Mailboat Walworth makes the delivery every morning at 10am from June 15 to September 15, stopping at over 60 lakefront homes. At each dock, the mail girl - or the occasional mail boy - jumps from the boat, races to the mailbox while dodging rafts and dock furniture, ...Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World, travel TV worth watching
Sep 9th, 2009 at 12:00PM: After last Tuesday's debut of Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World, Travel Channel's expansion of Andrew Zimmern's scope past bizarre food, I pronounced the first episode that highlighted Cuba--and the second one that was an unusual travel though Belize--a smart and successful call.
Perhaps the new Travel Channel executives will pay attention to Aaron's post last month asking them to concentrate on ...
