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Alton Crawford Brown was born in Los Angeles on July 30th, 1962. His parents were from a rural town in Georgia, Sir Alton Brown and his wife moved with their son, when he was 7, back to their home town. This is where Alton spent the rest of his days growing up. During his young age he spend a lot of time in the kitchen with his mother and grandmother learning to cook. Alton had a rough childhood at one point in time, his father committed suicide and later on his mother got remarried. While researching Alton Brown they don’t really say much about his childhood, they mainly focus on his college years and beyond into adulthood. Although through learning about his childhood you can find out that cooking was never his dream, Alton as a child dreamed …show more content…

. While on set filming the music videos, during the breaks he would watch cooking shows. Alton was very dissatisfied because of the poor quality of the many shows on TV. He wanted to set out and make his own show. To prepare for his upcoming show he went to the New England Culinary Institute, he graduated in 1997. Brown says that he was a poor science student in high school and college but when going to culinary school he wanted to focus on the underlying process of cooking. He wanted to know what the ingredients really did in a recipe, how they changed it. These were the things that lead Alton to start his show “Good Eats”. Alton wanted to create show that combined humor, science, and history. He was also inspired by Julia Child and Monty Python while creating show. The first episode of “Good Eats” aired in July, …show more content…

While filming and producing Good Eats, Alton was also writing 3 Good Eat books. The Early, Middle, and the Later years. He has also written I’m just here for the food, Alton Brown’s gear for your kitchen, I’m here for more food, and a book to go along with his mini series Feasting on Asphalt. Being the multi talented person he is, Alton has won many awards including Bon Appetit naming him Cooking teacher of the year in 2004, Atlanta magazine named him Best Food Guru in 2005, Monterey Bay Aquarium's Cooking for Solutions 2009 Educator of the Year, and James Beard Foundation Award for Best TV Food Personality 2011. Alton Brown believe it or not is a songwriter and lead performer on his very own album Bitter Like Me. The CD include 9 food themed song, including a thanksgiving theme song. Unrelated to his food career Alton is also a person pilot, having all the income from 8 books, 7 tv shows, 1 CD, and a spokesperson career he has had enough income to buy himself 2 different planes. Alton Brown lives and extraordinary life as a father, a chef, a musician, a pilot, a spokesperson, and a producer. He has gotten to experience many, many things in his life time and isn’t quite done yet. He enjoys what he does and loves making fun of himself while doing. As Alton would say “The more you try to impress people, generally the less you

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