Alton Brown Biography
Alton Brown (born Alton Crawford Brown Jr.) is an American television personality, chef, cinematographer, actor, author, food show presenter, and musician. Brown is the host and creator of the show, Good Eats on Food Network.
In addition, he is the host of the mini-series Feasting on Asphalt and Feasting on Waves. Moreover, Alton is the lead commentator on Cutthroat Kitchen and Iron Chef America. He has also written a number of best-selling books on food and cooking.
Alton Brown Age|Birthday
Brown was born on July 30, 1962. Therefore, he is 60 years old as of 2022 and celebrates his birthday on 30th July every year.
Alton Brown Height|Weight
Brown’s height is 5 feet 10 inches (approximately 178 centimeters). Moreover, he weighs 78 kilograms.
Alton Brown Family
Brown was born in Los Angeles, California, the United States to his parents. His father was Alton Brown Sr. who was a media executive in Cleveland, Georgia; owner of radio station WRWH; and publisher of the newspaper White County News. However, his father died on Alton’s last day of sixth grade from an apparent suicide. Additionally, the television personality has a sister named Marsha and a stepbrother named Ray.
Alton Brown Wife
Brown had been married to DeAnna, an executive producer on Good Eats for 21 years. The couple divorced in 2015. Moreover, they share a daughter named Zoey (born in 1999).
In addition, the author got engaged to Elizabeth Ingram, an Atlanta restaurant designer in 2018. Moreover, the duo married in September 2018 on a boat in Charleston, South Carolina.
Alton Brown Education
Brown attended LaGrange College in LaGrange after high school where he majored in business. In addition, the chef then transferred to the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens and studied filmmaking. However, Brown left UGA in 1985 one credit hour short of the graduation requirement although he later obtained his degree. Moreover, Alton enrolled in the New England Culinary Institute and studied with chef Jean-Patrick Matecat.
Alton Brown Career
Brown set out to produce his own show because he was dissatisfied with the quality of cooking shows airing on American television. The chef enrolled in the New England Culinary Institute in preparation graduating in 1997. Moreover, the TV personality says he was a poor science student in high school and college but he focused on the subject to understand the underlying process of cooking.
TV series
Good Eats
In July 1998, the Good Eats pilot first aired on the PBS member TV station WTTW in Chicago. Moreover, the show was picked up by Food Network in July 1999. Moreover, in order to point out that many of the devices sold at conventional ‘cooking’ stores are simply fancified hardware store items, many of the Good Eats episodes feature him building makeshift cooking devices. Furthermore, in 2000, Good Eats was nominated for the Best TV Food Journalism Award by the James Beard Foundation. Moreover, the show was also awarded a 2006 Peabody Award and Brown announced in May 2011 an end to Good Eats after 14 seasons.
Furthermore, Alton stated that Good Eats would have a sequel on his 2017 book tour. This would be released to the Internet in 2018. However, in late 2018 it changed when he made arrangements with the Cooking Channel to air ‘revised’ versions of several episodes with new recipes entitled Good Eats Reloaded. Moreover, Brown also stated new episodes of Good Eats are also in the works. In addition, Good Eats Returns premiered on the Food Network with the slightly-revised title Good Eats: The Return on Sunday, August 25.
Good Eats Reloaded and Good Eats: The Return
The show which was relaunched by Brown has two versions. Good Eats Reloaded on Cooking Channel. This reworks, updates, and adds to original Good Eats episodes. The second one on Food Network, Good Eats: The Return in August 2018 with all-new episodes. Furthermore, as a companion to the Chopped: Alton’s Maniacal Baskets tournament, the episodes premiered on Food Network in June 2021. Moreover, the chef announced on July 13, 2021, that Good Eats: The Return would not be returning for a third season.
Iron Chef America
Brown appeared on Iron Chef America: Battle of the Masters in 2004. Moreover, the chef served as the expert commentator, a modified version of the role played by Dr. Yukio Hattori in the original show. Additionally, Alton began serving as the play-by-play announcer when the show became a series. Moreover, the chef also served as the host for all five seasons of the spin-off The Next Iron Chef. Furthermore, in the 2022 reboot of the show, Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend, Alton would return to the same role.
Feasting on Asphalt
The chef’s third series, Feasting on Asphalt explores the history of eating on the move. Moreover, in a four-part miniseries about the history of road food, Alton and his crew traveled around the United States. Additionally, he samples food all along his travel route and includes a ‘history of food’ segment documenting famous road trips and interviews many of the foodies he meets en route.
Furthermore, on July 29, 2006, the series premiered on Food Network and the miniseries was picked up for a second run, Feasting on Asphalt 2: The River Run in 2007. Moreover, the third season has BRown traveling the Caribbean by boat in search of local cuisine and uses the title Feasting on Waves.
Cutthroat kitchen
The chef began hosting the cooking competition series Cutthroat Kitchen on the Food Network in 2013. Moreover, four chefs are each given $25,000 in each episode. Here, they bid on items that can be used to hider their opponents’ cooking such as confiscating ingredients or forcing them to use unorthodox tools and equipment. Additionally, the winner keeps their unspent money as the day’s prize, and three chefs are eliminated one by one.
Tours
The Edible Inevitable Tour
Alton Brown Live: The Edible Inevitable Tour was launched by Brown in October 2013. Moreover, this was his first tour visiting 46 cities through March 2014. Additionally, the show had stand-up comedy, a multimedia lecture, live music, talk show antics, and extreme’ food experimentation. Furthermore, after a hiatus of several months, while he worked on his Food Network shows, the tour resumed in October 2014. Moreover, it concluded on April 4, 2015, in Houston, Texas after visiting more than 60 cities.
Eat Your Science
In 2016 the chef mounted a second tour show, Alton Brown Live: Eat Your Science. Moreover, through the fall of 2017, the show toured. Furthermore, Alton’s shows have played over 225 dates including Broadway all totaled. However, both Brown’s tours have included ‘large, unusual and probably dangerous’ food demonstrations, audience participation, and even food songs performed b him and his combo.
Beyond the Eats
The chef’s third tour titled Alton Brown Live: Beyond the Eats was announced on Twitter in March 2021. Furthermore, the tour began in October 2021.
Awards
The chef is the recipient of two James Beard Awards. Brown won the Best Book award in 2003 for his first book, I’m Just Here for the Food. Moreover, he won the Broadcast Media Award in 2011 for TV Food Personality/Host. Additionally, Alton has also been nominated four additional times.
Other appearances
Mentor on season 8 of The Next Food Network Star.
Guest-starred in an episode of Spongebob SquarePants titled House Fancy.
Appeared on Travel Channel show The Layover.
Guest-starred aS the ‘Guest Bailiff’ and ‘Expert Witness
Featured on the Food Network television show ‘Chopped’ in five series called ‘Alton Brown’s Challenge’.
Voices Yum Labouche in Big Hero 6: The Series.
Appeared on episode 196 0f MythBusters titled ‘Food Fables’.
Commercials
Alton has done commercial work for General Electric products such as dishwashers, water purifiers, and five infomercials touting the benefits of GE refrigerators, washers, and dryers. Moreover, he also aided GE in developing a new type of oven and was initially called by GE to help their engineers learn more about the effects of heat on food.
Additionally, he has promoted Colgate toothpaste, Dannon yogurt, Welch’s, Shun knives, and Heifer International. Furthermore, Brown endorsed kosher salt use in a campaign for Cargill in 2010. Moreover, the TV personality began doing commercials for Healthy Choice’s line of low-fat, low-calorie, vegetable-based ‘Power Fressings’ in 2020.
Brown gained popularity in 2012 by pioneering the use of humourous ‘Analog Tweets’. The chef posts pictures of hand-drawn Twitter responses on Post-it Notes which he has stuck to his computer monitor.
The Alton Brown cast
Brown joined the Nerdist Podcast Network on June 28, 2013. His podcast The Alton Brown cast, covers food news, men’s style, music, and other topics.
Pantry Raid and Quarantine Quitchen
Brown took to YouTue to make two new online cooking series with the COVID-19 quarantine in 2020 and subsequent delays in production on season 16 of Good Eats.
Pantry Raid was a once-weekly series of shorts for making palatable foods while staying safe at home.
Quarantine Quitchen (aka QQ) started as a single live stream. It was titled The Browns Make Dinner referring to him and his wife Elizabeth making dinner at their loft apartment in Georgia. Moreover, the one-weekly series is now released live evry Tuesday after the success of the first such episode.
Alton Brown’s Net Worth
Brown’s net worth is $13 million.
