Alton Brown
Alton Brown was born in Los Angeles, California, United States on July 30th, 1962 and is the Chef. At the age of 61, Alton Brown biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Alton Crawford Brown Jr. (born July 30, 1962) is an American television host, writer, cinematographer, and composer.
He is the creator and host of the Food Network television show Good Eats, host of the mini-series Feasting on Waves, and host and main commentator on Iron Chef America and Cutthroat Kitchen.
Brown is a best-selling author of many books on food and cooking.
On Brown's 2017 book tour, he said that Good Eats would have a "sequel" and that it would be published on the internet in 2018.
On Cooking Channel, a "recap" series named "Good Eats Reloaded" premiered in October 2018, and a true sequel series titled "Good Eats" premiered on Food Network on August 25, 2019.
Early life
Alton Brown was born in Los Angeles, California, on July 30, 1962. Brown was a Boy Scout as a youth. Alton Brown Sr., Brown's father, was a television executive in Cleveland, Georgia; the owner of radio station WRWH; and the publisher of the newspaper White County News. He died on the last day of sixth grade in Alton from apparent suicide. Brown, a filmmaker at the University of Georgia, made many music videos, including "The One I Love" by R.E.M. in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Personal life
Brown lives in Marietta, Georgia. In 2015, he and his ex wife DeAnna, a Good Eats executive producer, divorced. Zoey (born in 1999) is their only daughter. On Good Eats (such as his late grandmother, Ma Mae, his mother, and daughter, Zoey, who is known on the show as "Alton's Spawn"), only a few people from his extended family, but the bulk of the character's "family" depicted on the program were actors or members of the show's production crew.
Elizabeth Ingram, a brown and Atlanta restaurant designer, became engaged in 2018. Brown and Ingram married on a boat in Charleston, South Carolina, according to Brown's Instagram page, as of September 2018. Brown and Ingram have two dogs, one for the dog named Francis Luther and the other for the Boston terrier/pug mix that the couple rescued in 2018 named Scabigail Van Buren, affectionately referred to as "Scabs"; Scabs has also appeared on Good Eats' latest episodes.
Brown referred to his current wife as his third wife in the fifth episode of Worst Cooks in America.
Brown was once a motorcycling enthusiast, but he no longer owns one. By 2012, he gave up motorcycling, citing concerns of weakening reflexes and safety. Brown said he now owns a 1980 BMW R60, in a Quarantine Quitchen episode. Brown, also a pilot, was featured in the aviation journal AOPA Flight Training. He owned two planes, a Cessna 206 and a Cessna 414.
Brown loves vintage watches and wore a different watch for every season of Good Eats; this was used in production to quickly determine which season a clip is from. When his watch fell off midseason, he continued to wear the broken timepiece to maintain this device. Brown purchased it from an eBay store twenty years after his father was robbed of the Omega Seamaster and had it restored.
Brown began exercising in 2009 in the hopes of losing weight and becoming healthier, losing 50 pounds (23 kg) over the course of nine months.
In a 2010 interview with Eater, Brown discussed his Christian convictions.He said at the time:
Brown said in a Time interview in December 2014 that he "could no longer adhere to the Southern Baptist Convention's indoctrination of children and its anti-gay position," adding that he is now "searching for a new belief system."
Brown has almost always supported Republicans, but that the 2016 United States Presidential Election was the first time he considered voting for a Democrat since Michael Dukakis in 1988. Joe Biden, the 2020 presidential nominee, was endorsed by him, as well as Democrats running in Georgia's Senate races.
Career
Brown was dissatisfied with the culinary shows on American television, so he decided to produce his own show. He enrolled in the New England Culinary Institute, graduating in 1997. Brown claims he was a bad science student in high school and college, but he wanted to learn the cooking process. Although he converts a few common single-purpose kitchen utensils and equipment, such as garlic presses and margarita machines, he is outspoken in his appearances about his dissatisfaction with single-purpose kitchen utensils and equipment such as garlic presses and margarita machines.
On the PBS affiliate TV station WTTW in Chicago, the pilot for Good Eats first aired in July 1998. In July 1999, Food Network first appeared on the show. Brown is featured in several of the Good Eats episodes in order to point out that many of the appliances sold in conventional "cooking" stores are simply fancified hardware store items. In 2000, Good Eats was nominated for the Best TV Journalism Award by the James Beard Foundation. A Peabody Award was also given to the show in 2006. After 14 seasons, Alton Brown announced the demise of Good Eats in May 2011. "Turn on the Dark" was the final episode of the series.
On Alton's 2017 book tour, he said that Good Eats would have a sequel and that it would be released on the internet in 2018. This was all changed in late 2018 when Brown made arrangements with The Cooking Channel to air "revised" versions of several episodes with new recipes entitled Good Eats Reloaded, which included new episodes of Good Eats Reloaded. On The Cooking Channel, thirteen episodes of Good Eats Reloaded aired in late winter and early spring 2019. The new show, Good Eats Returns, will premiere on the Food Network on June 5, 2019. It was revealed on June 5, 2019; it was previously announced on June 5, 2019. Good Eats Returns is a sequel to the Food Network's slightly modified title Good Eats: The Return of a Return.
Brown relaunched the show in two different ways: on YouTube, as Good Eats Reloaded (which updates, reworks, and adds to original Good Eats episodes), and on Food Network as Good Eats Reloaded (all new episodes). In April 2020, Reloaded's new episodes premiered. New Return episodes were in the scripting process and were set to be filming in the summer of 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the film was postponed. These episodes eventually became available on the newly launched Discovery+ streaming service, initially as an exclusive on the new Discovery+ subscription program. The episodes premiered on Food Network in June 2021 as a companion to the Chopped: Alton's Maniacal Baskets tournament. Brown revealed on July 13, 2021, that Good Eats: The Return of Good Eats: The Return of the Return of Adam and Eve will not be returning for a third season.
Brown appeared on Iron Chef America: Battle of the Masters in 2004. This was the second attempt to bring Iron Chef, the Japanese cooking show, to American television (the first being UPN's Iron Chef USA, which featured William Shatner). Brown appeared as the expert commentator, a simplified recreation of Dr. Yukio Hattori's role in the original film. Brown began as the play-by-play announcer, and Kevin Brauch as the kitchen reporter when the show became a series. Brown also appeared on the spin-off The Next Iron Chef for five seasons. Brown will reprise his role in the show's 2022 revival as Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend.
Feasting on Asphalt, Brown's third series, delves into the eating habits of people on the move. In a four-part miniseries about road food history, Brown and his crew rode around the country on motorcycles. Brown samples food on his travel route. He includes a "history of food" segment on his website describing major road trips and interviews with many of the foodies he encounters en route.
On July 29, 2006, the series premiered on Food Network. Feasting on Asphalt 2: The River Run in 2007 was selected for a second run in the miniseries. Between April and May 2007, six episodes were shot. Brown's travels chronicle the bulk of the Mississippi River's course. On August 4, 2007, Food Network's second series of episodes debuted. Brown Brown is a correspondent on Waves, and he and his wife are on board the Caribbean in search of local cuisine.
On the Food Network, Brown began to host the cooking competition series Cutthroat Kitchen in 2013. In each episode, four chefs are each given $25,000 to try on items that could be used to hinder their opponents' cooking, such as banning ingredients or requiring them to use unorthodox tools and equipment. Three chefs are deemed one out of a single one, and the winner keeps his/her unspent money as the day's draw. On August 11, 2013, the series premiered.
Brown introduced Alton Brown Live: The Edible Inevitable Tour, his first national tour visiting 46 cities from October 2013. The program featured stand-up comedy, talk show antics, a multimedia lecture, live music, and "exciting" food experiments. The tour returned in October 2014 and concluded in Houston, Texas, after Brown worked on his Food Network shows.
In 2016, Brown held Alton Brown Live: Eat Your Science for its second tour show. The show ran through the fall of 2017. Brown's shows have performed over 225 dates, including Broadway. Both his tours have featured "large, unusual, and certainly risky" food demonstrations, audience participation, and even food songs performed by Brown and his band. Brown has been quoted as saying that his last tour will debut in 2020 in the fall of 2020.
Brown's third tour, Alton Brown Live: Beyond the Eats, was announced on his Twitter page in March 2021. The tour began in October 2021 and is currently running.
Brown is the winner of two James Beard Awards. In 2003, he was named Best Book for his first book, I'm Just Here for the Food, and the Broadcast Media Award in 2011 for TV Personality/Host. He has also been nominated four times.
Brown appeared on Season 8 of The Next Food Network Star with Bobby Flay and Giada De Laurentiis as a mentor. Each mentor selected and coached a team of five finalists during Season 8. Justin Warner, Alton's top winner, was the Season 8 champion; however, Brown will not be producing Warner's film.
In an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants titled House Fancy, where he provides the voice of Nicholas Withers, the host of the titular show.
Brown appeared on the Travel Channel show The Layover with Anthony Bourdain, which was filmed in Atlanta in 2013. In the episode Bourdain is whisked by Brown to the Clermont Lounge.
In John Hodgman's comedy/court show podcast, the brown guest appeared as "Guest Bailiff" and "Expert Witness."
Brown appeared on Food Network's television show Chopped in a five-part series titled "Alton Brown's Challenge" in October 2017.
In Big Hero 6: The Series, Brown portrayed Yum Labouché. The celebrity is a judge for an underground cooking contest.
Brown appeared on "Food Fables" episode 196 of MythBusters.
He appeared on the web series "Match the Flavor to the Doritos" in June 2022. He was supposed to appear in a livestream in March 2020 but did not happen due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Brown has produced commercial work for GE Electric, including five infomercials promoting the benefits of GE refrigerators, washers, and dryers, water purifiers, Trivection ovens, and dishwashers. The infomercials are produced in the Good Eats style, using unusual camera angles, descriptive text, video aids, and scientific papers in the same manner as delivery. These informationmercials are sold to wholesale appliance/plumbing suppliers.
Brown has also assisted GE in the development of a new breed of oven. He was first called by GE to help their engineers learn more about the effects of heat on food; this progressed into active collaboration on the development of GE's Trivection oven.
Brown has sold Colgate toothpaste, Dannon yogurt, Welch's, Shun knives, and Heifer International. In a campaign for Cargill, he favoured kosher salt use in 2010. He began doing commercials for Healthy Choice's line of low-fat, low-calorie, vegetable-based "Power Dressings" in 2020.
Brown's popularity in 2012 soared by inventing the use of comedic "Analog Tweets," wherein he showcases photos of hand-drawn Twitter responses on Post-it Notes, which he has glued to his computer monitor.
Alton Brown, a food blogger, music, and other topics, joined the Nerdist Podcast Network on June 28, 2013. Through February 15, 2017, 68 episodes have been released.
Alton made two new online cooking series on YouTube after the COVID-19 quarantine in 2020 and the subsequent delays in development on Season 16 of "The Return" on Good Eats (Season 2 of "The Return."
Pantry Raid was a series of once-weekly shorts (mostly released on Fridays or Saturdays) for making delectable foods while also staying healthy at home. The episodes were shot in the Good Eats test kitchens at Brain Food Productions, and they featured Alton and a cameraman as the only staff onsite.
Quarantine Quitchen [aka "QQ") began as a single livestream video titled "The Browns Make Dinner," referring to Alton and his partner Elizabeth's dinner at their loft apartment in Georgia. Following the success of the first such "episode," the once-weekly series is now available online every Tuesday.