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My Take
I have always admired Alton Brown for treating cooking as something to be understood rather than merely demonstrated. Plenty of hosts hand you a recipe, but he hands you the reasoning, dragging chemistry and history into the kitchen until the whole thing makes sense. That curiosity is why Good Eats ran for sixteen seasons and still feels fresh. What impresses me most is the range, from voice work to cinematography to music, all bent toward one mission, demystifying food. He made me believe cooking is a skill anyone can reason their way into, not a gift reserved for the few. For that alone he has my lasting respect.
Overview
Alton Crawford Brown Jr. (born July 30, 1962) is an American television personality, food show presenter, author, voice actor, and cinematographer. He is the creator and host of the Food Network television show Good Eats that ran for 16 seasons, host of the miniseries Feasting on Asphalt and Feasting on Waves, and host and main commentator on Iron Chef America and Cutthroat Kitchen.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Alton Brown
- Name (Japanese)
- アルトン・ブラウン
- Reading
- あるとん・ぶらうん
- Born
- July 30, 1962 (age 63)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Tiger
- Origin
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- chef / voice actor / cinematographer / writer / musician
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Lithonia High School
- University
- University of Georgia
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | Good Eats | — | |
| Notable work | Good Eats | — | |
| Notable work | Good Eats: The Early Years | — | |
| Notable work | Good Eats 2: The Middle Years | — | |
| Notable work | Good Eats 3: The Later Years | — | |
| Notable work | Good Eats: Reloaded | — |
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.