State Plate With Taylor Hicks

Taylor dines on Hawaiian foods, including Spam Musubi, slow-smoked Kalua pig and hand-ground Poi.

Taylor dines on she-crab soup, Low Country boil, collard greens and other foods in South Carolina.

Entertainer Taylor Hicks tastes his way across West Virginia.

Taylor tries creamy peanut soup, bronzed flounder, sweet fried sugar toads and aged Virginia ham.

Taylor Hicks tastes his way across Delaware; along the way, he tries a sweet slice of seedless watermelon, savory chicken and slippery dumplings, buttery baby lima beans, double-fried Boardwalk fries, plus a crumbly state-loved peach pie.

Taylor fills up on Tennessee's most iconic foods, including famous Nashville hot chicken, Memphis barbecue, bacon-wrapped snap beans, Southern-style cornbread and creamy banana pudding.

Taylor Hicks tastes his way across Arkansas, filling up on the state's most iconic foods; along the way, he tries a legendary cheese dip, savory corned beef, fluffy long-grain rice, crispy fried pickles, and, finally, sweet possum pie.

Taylor Hicks tastes his way across Oklahoma, filling up on the state's most iconic foods; along the way he samples fried rattlesnake, chicken fried steak, summer squash, fried okra, and a rare fried pie.

Taylor Hicks tastes his way across Kansas, filling up on the state's most iconic foods; along the way, he tries some German bierocks, Kansas City barbecue, a zwieback bread roll, creamed spinach, and a sour cream and raisin pie.

Taylor Hicks tastes his way across Michigan, filling up on the state's most iconic foods; along the way, he tries tart cherries with brie, indigenous wild rice, celery salad, a whitefish boil, and a Polish dessert called paczki.

In Indiana, Taylor Hicks tries a corn dog, grilled duck breast and roasted sweet corn.

In Idaho, Taylor samples sturgeon caviar blinis, finger steaks and Basque croquetas.

In Utah, Taylor tries salt-encrusted beef, funeral potatoes and dried cherry cookies.

Entertainer Taylor Hicks tastes his way across Wyoming, filling up on the state's most iconic foods. Along the way, he tries bison jerky, elk fillet, quick-rising soda bread, a bowl of ranch-cooked beans and sauce and finally, healthy cowboy cookies.