Road Tasted
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Road Tasted is a television program
Television program
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 airing on Food Network
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. The show originally featured hosts Jamie Deen
Jamie Deen
Jamie Deen Jamie Deen Jamie Deen (born , in Albany, Georgia, is a chef, restauranteur]], and TV personality.He is widely known as one of the sons of culinary celebrity Paula Deen. With his brother, Bobby, he runs her restaurant, The Lady & Sons, in Savannah, Georgia. Deen also frequently appears on...

 and Bobby Deen
Bobby Deen
Bobby Deen is a television cook, TV personality, and restaurant manager He is best known as one of the sons of Paula Deen, and together with his brother, Jamie, runs her restaurant, The Lady & Sons, in Savannah, Georgia. He also frequently appears on her shows, Paula's Home Cooking and Paula's...

, the sons of popular Food Network host Paula Deen
Paula Deen
Paula Deen American cook, cooking show host, restaurateur, author, actress and Emmy Award-winning television personality.Deen resides in Savannah, Georgia, where she owns and operates...

, as they drove around the United States
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 searching for the best in family-run food businesses. It premiered July 11, 2006.

Road Tasted was created by Gordon Elliott
Gordon Elliott
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, long-time friend of Paula Deen
Paula Deen
Paula Deen American cook, cooking show host, restaurateur, author, actress and Emmy Award-winning television personality.Deen resides in Savannah, Georgia, where she owns and operates...

.

One of the show's primary appeals is that the businesses featured on the show can ship many of their products directly to customers. As such, the program always includes information about how to order the items featured on the show.

Before Food network settled on "Road Tasted", the show had the working title "Two for the Road".

The Deen brothers eventually decided that they wanted to devote more time to their family restaurant, and thus did not continue on as hosts of "Road Tasted." The original show has since been changed into "Road Tasted with the Neelys" featuring the Food Network hosts Pat
Pat Neely
Patrick "Pat" Neely is a restaurateur, television personality, and author. He is the co-owner of Neely's Bar-B-Que restaurant in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. He and wife Gina host two popular Food Network television programs named Down Home with the Neelys and Road Tasted with the Neelys. The pair...

and Gina Neely.

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