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Alton Brown is a foodie phenomenon: a great cook, a very funny guy, and—underneath it all—a science geek who’s as interested in the chemistry of cooking as he is in eating. (Well, almost.) Here, finally, are the books that Brown’s legion of fans have been salivating for—two volumes that together will provide an unexpurgated record of his long-running, award-winning Food Network TV series, Good Eats.
From “Pork Fiction” (on baby back ribs), to “Citizen Cane” (on caramel sauce), to “Oat Cuisine” (on oatmeal), every hilarious episode is represented. Each book—the second will be published in fall 2010—is illustrated with behind-the-scenes photos taken on the Good Eats set. Each contains more than 140 recipes and more than 1,000 photographs and illustrations, along with explanations of techniques, lots of food-science information (of course!), and more food puns, food jokes, and food trivia than you can shake a wooden spoon at.
About the Author
Alton Brown is the writer, director, and host of the Food Network show Good Eats, which won a 2007 Peabody Award, and is the expert commentator on Iron Chef America. In 2004 his STC book I’m Just Here For the Food won the James Beard Award for in the reference category. Brown lives in Georgia with his wife and daughter.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Incredibly well organized.,
This review is from: Good Eats: Volume 1, The Early Years (Hardcover)
To reiterate, the book is incredibly well organized. Alton Brown is a well-tuned master of the culinary/entertainment arts. The book reflects back on the first 6 seasons of his show Good Eats. It enhances or alters some of the recipes and ideas from the show and has added some new ones.The book references other parts of itself very smoothly. The behind the scenes quips, stories, and tips are worth the price of admission alone. If Alton seems like he is a man who is full of himself ... he has every right to be. Can't wait for the second book.
4.0 out of 5 stars
All you wanted to know about food but affraid to ask!,
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This review is from: Good Eats: Volume 1, The Early Years (Hardcover)
It is nice to cook but doing it 'robotically'...as most of us do is kind of wasting the real nature of cooking, Alton breaks this barrier by opening our minds by dissecting the processes involved in cooking by explaining it in a way that does not require a PHD in science and surely teach us stuff that makes us more aware of the beauty and joy of cooking, from the ingredients to methods....you will never cook the same after reading his book series...as a bonus his humoristic style will grow on you like poison ivy so much you won't stop reading till the last page..and get his next book!. Thank Alton!
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4.7 out of 5 stars (116 customer reviews) 71 of 72 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good Eats for your countertop - a multi-use tool.,
By Sandy - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Good Eats: Volume 1, The Early Years (Hardcover)
Finally! No more having to dig through the search engine of the food network website or dreading that I wrote the wrong measurement or ingredient while watching the show and frantically trying to copy all the juicy "tidbits"! No more looking at the DvD collection and sighing at the price, knowing I could never afford it! It's Good Eats, concise, compact and affordable.This volume contains the first 6 seasons and covers all 80 shows, covering: steak, spuds, eggs, baking, grilling, jams, frying, apples, mushrooms, and many more Good Eats. All of the tidbits are here and I dare say if not all, most of them, including updates on some of the tips and hints since the episodes were made (such as the recent teflon scare and how teflon isn't bad below 550F). The recipes from each episode are listed with procedures, diagrams, pictures and notations. It takes the fear away from the complexity of cooking and gives you fun history tips that you can pass on during dinner chat or use in a friendly game of trivial pursuit. Having seen other works of Alton's and considering him the best of the best for telling you how, when and why with science to back it up, I rate this the #1 must have. BTW, it's printed in a durable binder and the dustjacket folds out into a pulp-fiction type poster (cover art) that I'm seriously considering hanging in the game room due to its fun nature. 99 of 114 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great book but could use some tweaks,
By BTrain - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Good Eats: Volume 1, The Early Years (Hardcover)
Ok, I didn't give this five stars...which really kind of hurts to do because I am a huge Alton Brown fan. (My DVR is set to record every episode of Good Eats as it airs, I have autographed copies of all his other books and I've cooked just about everything on the show so far.) Anyway, the book is great, the "knowledge concentrate" is great in that it gets to the point of each topic/show, the recipes that are there are great and well written and the book is very well put together in general.So why didn't I give it five stars...well mainly because I find myself wishing it had a better way of organizing it and making the information and the related recipes easier to get to when you are cooking and don't really want to improvise and want to try his recipes out. Case in point, I had a bunch of friends coming over for dinner and I had very short notice to throw something together so I was following Alton's recipes for meatloaf and mashed potatoes. Finding the recipes was kind of challenging because i first tried to use the table of contents but that is sorted by the order of the episodes so it isn't really that helpful. next I turned to the index which actually worked very well. I think I am just spoiled by the ease of use of some good eats fan pages websites as easier ways to find recipes by searching by things like food and find myself wishing that was included in the book. I am also hoping (Wishing) that future editions will include some sort of master index (hopefully by food too) so that I can just look up something like "Pork, tenderloin" and see that it was used in his schweinbrauten recipe in episode x, and the recipe is contained in book y on page z kind of thing. Otherwise it is going to be messy to find something since the reader will have to remember which season/book the recipe is in. Other minor complaints involve the recipes. I got very excited to see in the first episode that he included an additional recipe that wasn't in the show but was kind of let down by the scarcity of more of these recipes throughout the book. Also, some of the recipes seem to be missing. Case-in-point, the chapter about pickling is missing some of the recipes he went over on the show such as for "firecrackers" and I had hoped that this book would become my one-stop source for all Good Eats recipes but some of them are missing and must be found on the internet. The above complaints may be things that are specific to me and not something other general readers would find as a problem. Me, personally, I'm a bit spoiled by how easy Alton makes it to explain and understand some of the complex things about cooking so I wish they took some extra steps to make the book easier to use. Overall though I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book...especially for people that are new to cooking or shy about cooking since it does contain a treasure trove of information that can be unbelievably helpful to people whether they watch the show or not. 40 of 45 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Alton is great His work deserves 9 stars *********,
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This review is from: Good Eats: Volume 1, The Early Years (Hardcover)
I hate to give this book a THREE STARS.My hope is that the editor will correct the problems before the next edition of the MIDDLE YEARS. The book is better than expected. Organized greatly ... how else could you do it except by Episode. There is an index for looking up by specific items. Well thought out. But if you are buying this book as a gift for someone, then make sure that someone is YOUNG with young eyes The MAIN text is okay ... as least it is black text on a white background. Other texts like tidbits is like white font on very light colored background. I have to hold the book just right ... light over my left shoulder with the book on an angle AWAY from the light source. This helps to get rid of the glare. Tomorow I will try some COLOR GLASS to look thru. Hopefully there is a color combination out there that will increase the contrast. The publisher must have been worried about people copying the pages. The pages are probably larger than what a scanner would read and some of the fonts appear to be less than size 6. I took my bifocals off and replaced them with just reading glasses. Book is great ... info is great ...Alton is great ... I would buy again even with the poorly designed fonts. I will be getting the follow up book also and was hoping this review would help in getting others to also suggest changing the font color in the next book. Could be the smaller font is there in order to fit in all the good info |
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