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    Eating Across America: A Foodie's Guide to Food Trucks, Street Food and the Best Dish in Each State (Foodie gift, for Fans of Road Trip USA or Diners Drive Ins and Dives)
    Eating Across America: A Foodie's Guide to Food Trucks, Street Food and the Best Dish in Each State (Foodie gift, for Fans of Road Trip USA or Diners Drive Ins and Dives)
    Eating Across America: A Foodie's Guide to Food Trucks, Street Food and the Best Dish in Each State (Foodie gift, for Fans of Road Trip USA or Diners Drive Ins and Dives)
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    Eating Across America: A Foodie's Guide to Food Trucks, Street Food and the Best Dish in Each State (Foodie gift, for Fans of Road Trip USA or Diners Drive Ins and Dives)

    By Daymon Patterson

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    Best Daym Takeout

    Drive-ins, diners and dives: Daymon Patterson, author of Eating Across America, is better known as Daym Drops, an American food critic, YouTube celebrity, and television presenter. He initially gained popularity on YouTube for his video review of a Five Guys takeoutmeal, which spawned a viral online song by the Gregory Brothers. He hosted Best Daym Takeout, a food-review oriented television program on the Travel Channel, based on his experiences and with certain aspects borrowed from his YouTube channel. "Best Daym Takeout", aired in 2013, with works featured on The Jimmy Fallon show. That's where Rachel Ray's Team found me, and brought me on for a few episodes before Rachel Ray offered me a position on the show as her Food Correspondent. I travel abroad, sampling dishes and many QSR locations, all to give them a Super Official Food Review from the front seat of my Truck.

    Cheap eats, food trucks and street food: Shows like Diners, Drive-ins and Dives have never been more popular. And they have inspired a movement. More and more, people are packing up their cars and road tripping in search of cheap eats, food trucks and street food. Daym Drops offers Eating Across America for all traveling foodies.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMango
    Release dateMar 14, 2018
    ISBN9781633536883
    Eating Across America: A Foodie's Guide to Food Trucks, Street Food and the Best Dish in Each State (Foodie gift, for Fans of Road Trip USA or Diners Drive Ins and Dives)
    Author

    Daymon Patterson

    Daymon Patterson, better known as Daym Drops, is an American food critic, YouTube celebrity, and television presenter. He initially gained popularity on the video-sharing site YouTube for his video review of a Five Guys takeoutmeal, which spawned a viral online song by the Gregory Brothers. He hosted Best Daym fast Takeout, a food-review oriented television program on the Travel Channel , based on him and with certain aspects borrowed from his YouTube channel. "Best Daym Takeout", which aired in 2013. With works featured on The Jimmy Fallon show, that is where Rachel Ray's Team found me, brought me on for a few episodes before Rachel Ray offered me a position on the show as her Food Correspondent. I travel abroad, sampling dishes and many QSR locations, all to give them a Super Official Food Review from the front seat of my Truck.

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      Eating Across America - Daymon Patterson

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      Copyright © 2018 Daymon Patterson

      Published by Mango Publishing Group, a division of Mango Media Inc.

      Cover, Layout & Design: Morgane Leoni

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      Daymon Daym Drops Patterson

      Eating Across America: A Foodie’s Guide to Food Trucks, Street Food and the Best Dish in Each State

      ISBN: (paperback) 978-1-63353-686-9, (ebook) 978-1-63353-688-3

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2017951054

      BISAC—TRV031000 TRAVEL / Food, Lodging & Transportation / Road Travel

      Printed in the United States of America

      Praise

      Having become friends with Daym Drops−after he hilariously, and quite candidly, reviewed my family’s Wahlburgers restaurant−I quickly realized that behind the outrageous comedy of his uniquely outrageous Internet food reviews, is an incredibly unique man. A man with a giant heart, matched only by his giant frame and equally giant appetite. But, whether you know him personally or not, one thing is clear to anyone who’s laughed their asses off to his culinary critiques−Daym Drops knows food! As a food critic, and as a friend, I give him five stars−and you better believe the screen is shaking too, foodie fam!

      —Donnie Wahlberg, co-owner of Wahlburgers

      A cool humble talented dude that stay working on the next move #truehustler.

      —Regg Lester (Big Regg), CBS radio, WZMX Hartford

      Met Daym a little bit before the song, No New Friends came out. Had I listened to them I would’ve missed out on having a Brotha’ from another mother. Easily one of the most down to earth dudes on the planet. Glad to have him as somebody I consider family.

      —Reginald Lewis

      Daym is like the older, louder (not as good looking) version of myself (though he is from Stratford, we forgive him) insider. He is the coolest Big Brotha’ you could ask for.

      —JT

      This man has a heart of gold. Always taking care of others, before himself and he is an amazing father! The world knows him as Daym Drops but I am fortunate enough to call him my Husband!

      —Ramyr Patterson

      Daym is doing the two things I love the most; eating and traveling but the difference between us is that he gets paid to do it.

      —Jaye Karl

      Working with Daym over the years has been a blessing and a great lesson. When you set your goals and put your feet into action, just about everything is possible. He never gave up on me and I do not plan to let him down anytime soon!

      —Edward Dupass

      It was a cold LA afternoon sometime around 2013. I was gearing up to bang out a YouTube collab video with some of the internet’s most promising stars. In walks a man I only knew of as a legend. A man, larger than life not only in reputation, but in stature. For me, I had one job that day. Create a meal that would rival this man’s past food reviews and make an impression on his taste bud brain. This man, was Daymon Patterson, aka Daym Drops. We hit it off right away and our friendship was birthed. If there’s another person’s taste buds that I would take into battle, it would be Daym’s.

      —Josh Elkin, Host for Cooking Channel’s Sugar Showdown

      Contents

      Preface

      Introduction

      Chapter 1

      Who Am I?

      Chapter 2

      Why YouTube and Why Food Reviews?

      Chapter 3

      Food Carts

      Chapter 4

      Food Trucks

      Chapter 5

      Cheap Eats

      Chapter 6

      Hole in the Wall Restaurants

      Chapter 7

      Taste Buds

      Chapter 8

      Eating Across America

      Chapter 9

      The Foodie Fam Super Official Map to Eating Across America

      Conclusion

      Letter from Mom

      Preface

      Who knows? Perhaps I am looked at as the man about town who could truly appreciate his food experiences when the food brings MORE than just character to my palette.

      White table cloth Michelin star dining rooms and hot dog vendors at Central Park all have one thing in common: experience. They all want you to not just taste the food, but to experience it.

      I want the full experience when it comes down to each bite. There are times that I sit in my vehicle, just thinking where should I go next for a food review? I want to be inspired by my food. Inspired in a way that I can look directly into the camera and scream out upon the mountaintops just how GOOD this burger, chicken sandwich, pizza, taco, hot dog truly is; but in my line of work, that is not always the case.

      I do not always get lost in the moment of pure tasteful bliss and more times than not, I am met with some foods that should have never made it to the menu. But because we spend our hard-earned money everywhere, from 5-star dishes to a fast food burger, our expectations tend to be that we should be met with value worthy of our time for each bite…but that’s not always the case. THAT is where I come in: The YouTube Food Titan.

      I hope that this guide helps you get closer to your taste buds. By the last page I want you to understand what food means; what the experience of eating from a food truck or cheap eats dive actually means to the cooks, the chefs, the owners, and most importantly, you. So let’s get started!

      MILAN, ITALY - NOVEMBER 7: People visiting Eat Market, a street food parade with international dishes in Milan on November, 7 2015. People being served by El Caminante food truck at Eat Market

      Introduction

      A CRASH COURSE ON FOOD TRUCKS AND CHEAP EATS

      If you’re familiar with my channel, you’ll know that my dining experience tends to center on my car’s dashboard. For a YouTube food review, it is the BEST option for enjoying and detailing what makes a certain order stand out. With that in mind, I was inspired to think of all the unique ways we enjoy food: family dinners, BBQs with friends, picnics, happy hour sliders, fish tacos and so many more. With all these different ways to eat and connect, I thought we’d start off with the community. And nothing brings people together quite like food made by hard-working, caring people. While

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