Taste Test food workweek would n’t have been complete withoutour fun Q&As with Alton Brown , but his live - out - of - the - oven bookGood feed : The Early Yearsis the material intelligence peg . ( volume tour go steady below ! )
If you ’ve take his I ’m Just Here For the Food book , you know that they ’re more helpful for overall skills , only sporadically providing recipes and directions on finicky dishes . They ’re great , but they leave you painfully mindful that there is no Alton Brown Cookbook .
The unexampled Scripture really is that cookbook , but with no deficit of the explanation , advice and minutiae that make his other works large . You may think I ’m biased ( and you may be right ) , but anyone who ’s learned anything from his shows should translate on :
It ’s a hyper - instance newspaper version of his first 80 episode for which I am specially grateful . I may have caught plenty of installments from this six - season block , but I have always worried that the DVDs were n’t randomly accessible enough . For reminiscence , I tend to swear instead on the spare - minimum recipes that appear on Food connection ’s website . Now most of my best-loved sequence are within instantaneous stretch — from “ Crustacean Nation ” to “ Squid Pro Quo , ” from “ American Pickle ” to “ The Choke Is On You”—complete with the random factoid , unearthly science , campy costume and all .
Of course that does n’t mean I would n’t kill for an iPhone app version of this record book — quite possibly even for $ 25 — but in place of that , I ’ll take the record .
Giz lector should n’t fear that any kitchen contraption and hacks fail to make the jump from television to paper . I still remember Alton ’s obsessive “ How to Pack a Cooler ” from the squid episode , and lo , there it is describe with a grind - favorable hybrid section . Practically every chapter has sketches of gadgets or cheat — facing each other on a pageboy in “ Silence of the Leg O ’ Lamb ” are a operating surgeon ’s naut mi and a lamp chimney charcoal appetiser .
The trouble with the Word of God is that there ’s more Alton than it can contain , so fans who wish to replicate the sea captain ’s waffle , sushi or Pork Wellington will still have to look them up online , or wait a unspoilt while before Good Eats Vol . 2 appears .
In the lag , Alton leave readers with flock to masticate on , literally and figuratively . There ’s even a wall post horse of the back , for you absolute Alton freaks . [ Amazon ]
Also , FYI , Alton ’s going on tour to elevate the book , start with appearances at theNY Wine and Food Festival . Here ’s the rough schedule :
NYC
Friday , October 9
Barnes & Noble – Union Square
7PM
Saturday , October 10
Food & Wine Festival
12:30PM
Sunday , October 11
12PM
Boston
Tuesday , October 13
Brookline Booksmith at Coolidge Corner Theatre
6PM
Arlington VA
Wednesday , October 14
Sur La Table – Pentagon Row
Washington DC
Smithsonian ( not certain which , condition altonbrown.com later for substantiation )
5PM
Chicago
Thursday , October 15
Borders – N. Michigan Ave
Seattle
Friday , October 16
Third Place Books – Lake Forest Park , WA
( Giz readers note : I plan to go to this one )
San Diego
Saturday , October 17
Costco – Fenton Pkwy
1PM
Austin
Sunday , October 18
Location TBD
Norcross GA
Saturday , December 5
“ Lunchtime ”
BJ ’s Wholesale Club – Norcross
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