I'm eventually going to have to deal with myself, but I'm going to wait a little bit.
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Alton Brown
Alton Crawford Brown (born July 30, 1962) is an American television personality, food show presenter, author, actor, cinematographer, and musician. He is the creator and host of the Food Network television show Good Eats (14 seasons), host of the mini-series Feasting on Asphalt and Feasting on Waves, and host and main commentator on Iron Chef America, Cutthroat Kitchen and Camp Cutthroat. Brown is a best-selling author of several books on food and cooking. On Alton's 2016 book tour, he stated Good Eats will have a "sequel", and it will be released in 2017 on the internet. He is the songwriter and lead performer for his CD Bitter Like Me. 2Early life Brown was born July 30, 1962, in Los Angeles and spent his youth in Georgia. Brown's father, Alton Brown, Sr., was a media executive in Cleveland, Georgia, owner of radio station WRWH and publisher of the newspaper White County News. After studying film in the University of Georgia drama department, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Brown was the cinematographer for several music videos, including "The One I Love" by R.E.M. 2Career Brown notes that he was very dissatisfied with the quality of cooking shows airing on American television, so he set out to produce his own show. In preparation, he enrolled in the New England Culinary Institute, graduating in 1997. Brown says that he was a poor science student in high school and college, but he focused on the subject to understand the underlying processes of cookin
You understand what you're shown on television. You don't live with this situation.
Don't talk about what you don't know.
It's my belief that we keep gravitating around the campfire that is food because, as a species, we require connectivity to each other. Food is actually one of the last universal things that we've got to do that.
You remember the food and you remember the people you met who make it.
America's full of fantastically well-trained eaters now. We know what's going on.
Whether you're writing a blog, you're doing a show, opening a restaurant, running a farm, it kinda comes down to what makes you different from everybody else.
Cooking is an incredibly intimate thing to do for people. Sex is intimate, but in a way, also completely non-intimate, depending on how you approach it.
The real game changer, when you get right down to it, was Starbucks. We're starting to value things. We're willing to spend money on quality.
Every disaster has a way of becoming something special, as long as you don't freak out. There are assets in every liability, if you can find them.
There are two things that, if you removed them, would make the South simply cease to exist: One is food, the other is the Allman Brothers.
All good Southerners are pretty much kinda mad.
Be givers of hospitality and gracious takers of it too. Accept the serendipitous moments of life because, when all is said and done, you may find out that they were not serendipitous at all. And know that faith is as real as bread broken among friends. What you believe will take you far on your…
In the end, all journeys are spiritual. So go off the main road.