- In 2008 Alton Brown joined forces with The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) to help clear up consumer confusion on what sustainability really is.
- Alton's first book I'm Just Here for the Food, won a James Beard Foundation Book Award in the Reference category in 2003 and his follow-up, I'm Just Here for the Food: Kitchen User's Manual, was nominated for the 2004 James Beard Foundation award in the Tools & Techniques category.
- Alton has at least two tattoos, a honeybee on his left shoulder, shown on Iron Chef America, and a crossed knife and fork with the inscription "Eat to Live" that he got during the filming of Feasting on Asphalt.
- Alton is a born-again Christian and a member of Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta, Georgia.
- Good Eats was awarded a Peabody Award in 2006 for teaching science in an entertaining and appetizing manner.
- Alton was nominated for a James Beard award in 2000 in the category Best T.V. Food Journalism.
- Alton was the director of photography on the music video for R.E.M.'s "The One I Love."
- Alton received a degree in drama from the University of Georgia.
- Alton is obsessed with aviation and is working on getting his pilot license at Superior Flight School in Kennesaw, GA.
- Alton is an experienced motorcyclist. He owns a 2005 BMW R1100RT which he bought used from a local BMW dealer. He is shown riding his bike in his Food Network special series, Feasting on Asphalt.
- Alton was named Bon Appetit's 2004 Cooking Teacher of the Year.
- Alton has written 5 books:
I'm Just Here for the Food
I'm Just Here for the Food: Kitchen User's Manual
Alton Brown's Gear for Your Kitchen
I'm Just Here for More Food:
Food x Mixing + Heat = Baking
Feasting on Asphalt: The River Run
- An avid Motorcycle enthusiast. You can see him riding his bike in the Good Eats episode "Circle of Life", dropping off doughnuts to his "sister", played by Merrilyn Crouch, and her troop of Bunnies.
- Alton's dog, Matilda, a basset hound mix, has appeared on Good Eats playing herself in the episode "Casserole Over."
- In his book, I'm Just Here For the Food, Alton stresses that he does not view himself as a chef, for he says he has no talent for creating new dishes, but wants more to make the inner workings of food understandable. "In that regard I'm more a mechanic more than I am a cook,"
- Alton: (On what his favorite curse word is)
Oh bother. I'm from the South.
- Alton: The brain is the most important tool in cooking.
- Alton: Everything in food is science.
- Alton: There are no bad foods, only bad food habits.
- Alton: Even people who don't actually cook can enjoy the show.
- Alton: In the first days, when we first made the test pilots, we didn't even think much about market. I just wanted to make the show.
- Alton: I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.
- Alton: I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.
- Alton: I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.
- Alton: I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.
- Alton: I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.
- Alton: I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.
- Alton: I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.
- Alton: Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
