ABOUT THE GAS STATION GOURMET™

Part travel, mostly food, the Gas Station Gourmet explores America’s undiscovered culinary

treasure, gas station food.  High gasoline prices have not slowed down travel. You need fuel and food when on a trip, but most people don’t realize that both can be found in the same place.   Gas station food is more than beef jerky and honey buns.

Al Hebert takes viewers to unique restaurants inside big truck stops and convenience stores.  The show celebrates the great American entrepreneur.  These small business owners have the kind of creativity and personality rarely highlighted on traditional food and travel shows.   Each episode begins with a visit to a gas station.  Viewers get a feel for the personality behind the food.  Then it’s off to the kitchen to see how everything from chicken balls to boudin is prepared.   An off-road segment finds great food in unusual settings. These segments are funny and often a bit irreverent.  A search for the best jail food in America shows cinnamon rolls in the Orange Country Jail as well as prisoners who bake bread for civic clubs in South Louisiana.   Travels to a small hospital with a 1950’s style grill and the secret behind a great comfort food, warm school buns, yeast rolls, takes our host undercover in an elementary school to get the secret recipe.   The show wraps up with recipes and directions.