Goodbye, "Good Eats": Alton Brown's Ten Best Moments
Posted on 06/08/2011 7:50:27 PM PDT by iowamark
Marietta food guru Alton Brown announced yesterday that after 249 episodes, he is shutting down “Good Eats,” a Food Network staple since 1999.
Beau Benton, his spokesman, confirmed that “Good Eats” will no longer be a regular series though Brown does plan three one-hour specials this year. He said Brown was not available for interviews.
Brown’s “Good Eats” has been a standard dish on Food Network’s menu for years, frequently in prime time. A fast-paced, intricately-created concoction, the show provides viewers with food history, cooking tips and oddball trivia on a single topic in Brown’s signature light-hearted and frequently sardonic tone. Over nearly 250 episodes, he chewed on almost every food subject there is, be it olives, steak or bouillabaisse. With some common staples like pasta or eggs, he’s done multiple episodes. And he’d hire local actors to play goofy parts.
One of those actors, Vickie Eng, who played the mysterious W character on about 30 episodes, said Brown put “blood, sweat and tears” into the show as director, writer and star. Her favorite moment was dangling from the ceiling Tom Cruise/”Mission Impossible” style for an episode on oysters.
Bobby Flay, another Food Network staple, said in an interview yesterday that he admires Brown for his “encyclopedic knowledge” of food and how he’s able to leverage that in multiple arenas.
Brown owns a 15,000-square-foot studio in Atlanta where he has shot “Good Eats.” Much of his staff and crew has been with him for years, a testament to his good works as a boss. “Everybody there is like family,” Eng said.
The Welch’s spokesman and author recently re-signed a new contract with Food Network and has an entrenched job with “Iron Chef” and its various incarnations. Undoubtedly, he has another show idea in his fridge.
Goodbye, "Good Eats": Alton Brown's Ten Best Moments
The most entertaining cooking show since “Justn Wilson’s Outdoor Cooking”
Tell us it ain’t so, Alton!
The most accessible and funniest (and fact-based) cooking show EVER and he is walking away?
Alton, your fans are pleading for you to reconsider!
New series will replace it. “Throw Up with Bobbie Flay”
Bummer, that was a good show and frankly, one of the most informative and as funny as heck.
The earlier episodes were much better than the later. Too much comedy and not enough cooking.
The best produced show about food ever.
Alton’s the best...
I guess he ran out of recipe’s
“Lemme sample dis wine...”
The chef is here. Good eats for everyone.
'La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.' - Auguste Escoffier
(Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Alton shouldn’t be allowed to quit until every time he said ‘But that’s another show’, the show actually got made. Otherwise, we the viewers, have been cheated!
He owns a 15,000 sq ft studio.... he’s going to do something with it and he won’t likely be the net Pat Robertson I bet. lol
I really like that show..Every time it ended I would say to my husband “that’s a really good show”..i will miss it but am sure it will rerun somewhere.
I enjoyed when he went cross-country journey on a motorcycle. The series about road food.
Justin Wilson was a riot
I saw enough of his show in 2006 to think of it as the best, how to show, ever.
They should release an encyclopedia book form, DVD collection.
:(
Love that show. I hope Netflix picks up the entire series...
At least Mario stays with Italian stuff, which he does well. And I've heard through the grapevine that he runs a good (if somewhat rough) kitchen.
/johnny
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