Alton Brown

Alton Brown
Brown at the Hopelink fundraiser.
Born	Alton Crawford Brown (1962-07-30) July 30, 1962 (age 54) Los Angeles
Education	University of Georgia New England Culinary Institute
Spouse(s)	DeAnna Brown (div. 2015)
Children	1
Culinary career
Cooking style	American, Southern
Television show(s) Good Eats Iron Chef America Feasting on Waves Feasting on Asphalt The Next Food Network Star Cutthroat Kitchen

Alton Crawford Brown (born July 30, 1962) is an American television personality, food show presenter, author, actor, cinematographer, and musician. He is the creator and host of the Food Network television show Good Eats (14 seasons), host of the mini-series Feasting on Asphalt and Feasting on Waves, and host and main commentator on Iron Chef America, Cutthroat Kitchen and Camp Cutthroat. Brown is a best selling author of several books on food and cooking. On Alton's 2016 book tour he stated Good Eats will have a "sequel", and it will be released in 2017 on the Internet. He is the songwriter and lead performer for his CD Bitter Like Me.

Brown was born July 30, 1962 in Los Angeles and spent his youth in Georgia. Brown's father, Alton Brown, Sr., was a media executive in Cleveland, Georgia, owner of radio station WRWH and publisher of the newspaper White County News.

After studying film in the University of Georgia drama department, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Brown was the cinematographer for several music videos, including "The One I Love" by R.E.M..

Brown notes that he was very dissatisfied with the quality of cooking shows airing on American television, so he set out to produce his own show. In preparation, he enrolled in the New England Culinary Institute, graduating in 1997. Brown says that he was a poor science student in high school and college, but he focused on the subject to understand the underlying processes of cooking. He is outspoken in his shows about his dislike of single-purpose kitchen utensils and equipment ("unitaskers"), such as garlic presses and margarita machines, although he adapts a few traditionally single-purpose devices, such as rice cookers and melon ballers, into multi-purpose tools.