There's little that can actually be said about Alton Brown - the words don\'t exist that can transmit the purity of his genius through text. His show, Good Eats, is quite simply one of the most entertaining things on TV, in large part to his...
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There's little that can actually be said about Alton Brown - the words don\'t exist that can transmit the purity of his genius through text. His show, Good Eats, is quite simply one of the most entertaining things on TV, in large part to his affability and skill at communicating relatively complex concepts with cardboard models, simple diagrams, an etch-a-sketch, etc.

Good Eats deserves its own review, but so far as Alton Brown goes, he\'s one of those people that seems to just effortlessly present a charming persona without it seeming forced or having it grate on the audience. A lot of television chefs can become annoying over time - Emeril, anyone? - but Alton Brown just seems like everyone\'s special TV friend. I have a friend, and he\'s on TV! You know the kind of person I\'m talking about.

Anyway, Alton\'s like that. If you took Mike Nelson from Mystery Science Theater 3000, chopped him up, mixed him with a like amount of some excellent cook, then sprinkled the mixture with a spice derived from the desiccated corpse of a mad scientist, then...well, you\'d be a murderer and a crazy person. But the end result may wind up being something like Alton Brown.