John has breakfast at Toast in Ferndale, Mich.; tries pierogies filled with pork belly at a Canadian bistro and pub; and visits Toronto's oldest restaurant.

John gets an education in making sandwiches at a university hangout. Also: He visits a renovated house in Portland, Ore., which is now home to delicious steamed buns, noodles and bahn mi; and he gets a taste of simple bistro cooking at 2 Doors Down in Halifax, N.S.