Alton Brown, Food Network darling, including Host of Good Eats! and Iron Chef, made an appearance at the Gourmet Show here in Atlanta. This is a rare occurrence to have a celebrity as big as Brown do a free demo. The demo was called Science: It’s What’s for Dinner. I was completely stoked that I got to attend. I’ve never seen Alton Brown live and it was a real treat as expected.

The other thing that was great was the fact that this was a small cooking stage with only about 50 seats in the audience. So, we got to see Alton up close. Mr. Brown, an Atlanta resident, made 3 dishes. The first was braised short ribs, and we got to see his fancy doodle cooking accoutrement: an instrument for braising beef. He also made red bull ice cream using Nitrous Oxide as well as aerosol cheese.

Some questions he answered from the audience where:

What is your favorite multi-purpose cooking tool?
He said right now, it is his panini press. He said he cooks all sorts of things on it, none of which has been an actual pannini so far.

If you could eat anything for the rest of your life what it would be?
Beer and chocolate

Favorite meal / method of cooking?
Cooking a steak directly on coal

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