Diners, Drive-ins and Dives - Season 13 (2011)

Vancouver, B.C.: The Red Wagon - one specialty is Pulled Pork Pancakes with Jack Daniels maple syrup. Summerville, SC: Perfectly Franks serves hot dogs with toppings you won't find anywhere else - among which are blue cheese coleslaw, or pulled pork, or peanut butter and banana (that's the Elvis, of course). NYC: Mama's Food Shop whose specialties are a unique fried chicken and peach cobbler.

Homemade dishes are sampled coast-to-coast, including pretzels with beer-cheese sauce in New York; turkey pot pie in Vancouver; and carnitas with red salsa and pozole with handmade tortillas in Santa Barbara, California.

Meaty eats are on the menu. Stops include Charleston, S.C., for duck clubs with homemade garlic mayo; Queens, N.Y., for Cuban favorites like ropa vieja and arroz con pollo; and Vancouver, British Columbia, for homemade sausages.

International comfort foods are sampled, including British fish and chips; Scottish haggis; Italian meat sauce with homemade pappardelle.

Stops include a Greek diner in Dundalk, Md., for stuffed grape leaves; a mom-and-pop joint in Charleston, S.C., for deep-fried pork chops with sweet-and-spicy pepper jelly; and a restaurant in Oxnard, Calif., for lamb burgers with red-pepper relish.

Family-run eateries are visited in Vancouver, Virginia Beach and Brooklyn. Featured eats include Chinese hand-pulled noodles; barbecued fish tacos; and homemade brandade with escabeche.

Featured eats: Guinness fried oysters at an Irish joint in Annapolis, Md.; steak-pizzaiola sandwiches at a family-run sandwich shop in Brooklyn; and Low-Country classics, crispy chicken legs and pork po'boys, at a Charleston, S.C., eatery.

"R&R Taqueria" in Elkridge, Md., is visited with former Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann. Then, Guy heads to Minneapolis to try the pierogies at "Nye's Polonaise Room". Also: a decades-old fried-chicken joint in Portsmouth, Va.

The host tries square pizza, when he meets up with Duff Goldman, at "Joe Squared" in Baltimore. Also sampled: soups with a Tex-Mex spin in Dallas; turkey fritters in Santa Barbara, California.

This trip, Guy finds a slice of history all over the country. He makes stops in Santa Barbara, California, Dallas, Texas and Minneapolis, Minnesota.