
John T. Edge travels around the region, introducing viewers to Southern tastemakers, food, culture and history.
Greek natives and their kin built the Birmingham restaurant scene, from barbecue joints to hot dog stands to steakhouses; Bright Star, founded in 1907, is the old guard and Johnny's is the new guard Greek restaurant.
The crew joins their guide Caleb Johnson at the onetime center of the Alabama coal mining industry as they document the legacies of that hard work; Johnson has plenty of familiarity with the area as grew up in the nearby town of Arley.
Narvaez welcomes the crew into his world, which revolves around Baseline Road, the Camino Real of Little Rock; he and his brother Raul Narvaez own four businesses in town, including El Super Pollo, a western wear store and two grocery stores.
Pablo Rivadeneyra rotisserie cooks lime-marinated chicken; Larry and Betty Jean Scott work a smoke-belching pit at Scott's BBQ; in these two places, we get a glimpse of the hard work that defines life in the South.