Last spring, Alton Brown and his crew blew through the Mississippi Delta, collecting footage--and tamales--for the second season of Brown's Food Network show Feasting on Asphalt: The River Run. SFA oral historian Amy Evans met up with the guys in Rosedale, where they visited with Barbara Pope of Joe's White Front, ate tamales, and speculated about the origins of the Koolickle. Now, those moments are collected in a book of the same name.

Last week, Alton Brown blew through the Delta again, this time for some book signings. He spent the morning at TurnRow Book Company in Greenwood (a great Delta town with some fabulous tamales, by the way), and then hit the SFA's hometown of Oxford in the afternoon. Read a great review of Feasting on Asphalt by our friends at TurnRow.