Alton Brown Biography
Alton Brown is a television personality, food show host, chef, author, actor, cinematographer, and musician from the United States. He is the creator and host of the 14-season Food Network television show Good Eats, the host of the miniseries Feasting on Asphalt and Feasting on Waves, and the host and main commentator on Iron Chef America and Cutthroat Kitchen.
How old is Alton Brown? – Age
He is 59 years old as of 30 July 2021. He was born in 1962 in Los Angeles, California, United States. His real name is Alton Crawford Brown Jr.
Who is Alton Brown’s Family? – Parents
He was born to Alton Brown Sr., Brown’s, who was a media executive in Cleveland, Georgia, and the owner of radio station WRWH as well as the publisher of the newspaper White County News. He died of an apparent suicide on Alton’s last day of sixth grade.
Alton Brown Wife
Brown referred to his current wife as his third wife in the fifth episode of Season 18 of Worst Cooks in America. He and his ex-wife DeAnna, who worked as an executive producer on Good Eats, divorced in 2015.
Does Alton Brown have a Daughter?
DeAnna and Alton have a daughter named Zoey Alton who was born in 1990. His late grandmother, Ma Mae, his mother, and daughter, Zoey, who is known on the show as “Alton’s Spawn,” all appeared on Good Eats, but the majority of his “family” portrayed on the show were actors or members of the show’s production crew.
Alton Brown Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $13 Million.
How much does Alton Brown make?
His salary is not revealed.
Does Alton Brown have any Tattoos?
Brown has two tattoos: a honeybee on his left shoulder, as seen on Iron Chef America, and a crossed knife and fork with the inscription “Eat to Live,” which he got while filming Feasting on Asphalt. Brown is a voracious knife collector.
Alton Brown Commercials
Brown has done commercials for General Electric products, including five infomercials extolling the virtues of GE refrigerators, washers and dryers, water purifiers, Trivection ovens, and dishwashers. The infomercials are produced in the Good Eats style, with unusual camera angles, informational text, props, visual aids, scientific explanations, and the same delivery method. These infomercials are distributed to wholesale appliance/plumbing distributors.
Brown has also assisted GE in the development of a new type of oven. GE initially contacted him to assist their engineers in learning more about the effects of heat on food; this evolved into an active collaboration to develop GE’s Trivection oven. Brown has endorsed products such as Colgate toothpaste, Dannon yogurt, Welch’s, Shun knives, and Heifer International. In a Cargill campaign in 2010, he endorsed the use of kosher salt. He began appearing in commercials for Healthy Choice’s line of low-fat, low-calorie, vegetable-based “Power Dressings” in 2020.
Alton Brown Eat Your Science
In 2016, Brown launched a second tour, Alton Brown Live: Eat Your Science. The production toured throughout the fall of 2017. Brown’s shows have played over 225 dates in total, including Broadway. Brown and his band have performed “large, unusual, and probably dangerous” food demonstrations, audience participation, and even food songs on both of his tours. Brown has stated that his final tour will begin in the fall of 2020.
Alton Brown Iron Chef America
Brown appeared on Iron Chef America: Battle of the Masters in 2004. This was the second attempt to bring the Japanese cooking show Iron Chef to American television (the first being UPN’s Iron Chef USA, starring William Shatner). Brown played the role of expert commentator, a modified version of Dr. Yukio Hattori’s role in the original show. When the show was made into a series, Brown took over as play-by-play announcer, with Kevin Brauch serving as kitchen reporter. Brown also hosted the spin-off The Next Iron Chef for all five seasons.
Alton Brown The Return
Brown relaunched the show in two versions in August 2019: on Cooking Channel as Good Eats Reloaded, and on Food Network as Good Eats: The Return. Both the Reloaded and Return series is expected to return in 2020. Reloaded’s new episodes will premiere in April 2020. New Return episodes were in the works and were scheduled to begin filming in the summer of 2020, but were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These episodes were eventually released, initially as an exclusive on Discovery+, the new streaming service. The episodes will premiere on Food Network in June 2021 as a companion to the Chopped: Alton’s Maniacal Baskets tournament. Brown announced on July 13, 2021, that Good Eats: Brown announced on July 13, 2021, that Good Eats: The Return would not return for a third season.
Alton Brown Good Eats
The pilot for Good Eats first aired in July 1998 on Chicago’s PBS member station WTTW. The show was picked up by Food Network in July 1999. Many Good Eats episodes feature Brown constructing makeshift cooking devices to highlight the fact that many of the devices sold in traditional “cooking” stores are simply fancified hardware store items. In 2000, the James Beard Foundation nominated Good Eats for the Best TV Food Journalism Award. The show was also nominated for a Peabody Award in 2006. Alton Brown announced the end of Good Eats after 14 seasons in May 2011. “Turn on the Dark,” the final episode, aired on February 10, 2012.
Alton stated on his 2017 book tour that Good Eats would have a sequel, which would be released on the internet in 2018. This changed in late 2018 when Brown made arrangements with The Cooking Channel to air “revised” versions of several episodes with new recipes under the title Good Eats Reloaded, in which he also stated that new episodes of Good Eats are in the works. Thirteen episodes of Good Eats Reloaded aired in late winter and early spring 2019 and were added to The Cooking Channel’s Good Eats reruns. On June 5, 2019, it was announced that the new show would be called Good Eats Returns; it premiered on the Food Network with the slightly revised title Good Eats: The Return on Sunday, June 9, 2019. On June 5, 2019, it was announced that the new show would be called Good Eats Returns; it premiered on the Food Network on Sunday, August 25 under the slightly revised title Good Eats: The Return.