Just over a month ago, the people from Roadfood released a television food and travel show. Its about ten years too late. I couldn't tell you which channel its on, or where to stream it, or who hosts it without checking. The first episode is about Houston, and I don't know much about Houston because I haven't been there in a long time. I don't know if the show features what the city is like today, or whether its more like an older person's idea of what eating out in Houston is like. The people who wrote the Roadfood book a long time ago didn't adjust to the changing media and the way America has changed since their book was selling. They were too bought into old social values and a backwards sense of what eating out in America is and hadn't realized how much has changed or how much of the nostalgia that people and places sell to other people kinda sells a fictional sense of what things used to be a long time ago. The Roadfood books had a huge influence on the pilot episode and fist seasons of DDD.
When Guy Fieri won the Food Network Star and had his first success with DDD and then other shows, he didn't fit what other people's expectations were for a food television host. You wouldn't just switch on to cable television and see a guy with frosted tips and tattoos on the food network, and people with the older social values never accepted the guy or could take him seriously. When you grow older you see it happen in all kinds of places.