Alton Brown (born on July 30, 1962 in Los Angeles, California, United States) is an American food personality, cinematographer, author, and actor. He is the creator and host of the Food Network television show Good Eats, the miniseries Feasting on Asphalt and the main commentator on Iron Chef America. Brown is also the author of several cooking how-to books and a regular contributor to Bon Appétit and Men’s Journal magazines.He brings a knowledge and enthusiasm for the science of cooking and food, and a humorous approach to his shows. Bon Appétit magazine named him "Cooking Teacher of the Year" in 2004.

This is a great cooking website I just came across. Enter the types of food you are craving and it will present recipes to you all with web 2.0 goodness.

this dip is quick and easy and really GOOD.

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This new service from diet.com allows anyone, from any phone that has text messaging capabilities, to "query" a restaurant name and menu item to receive nutrition information for that food item. Try it out! send a text message to 34381 (diet1) with something like "mcdonalds big mac" and behold the information in your hands! Best of all - its FREE!

Advocating locally grown food has taken Alice Waters far beyond Berkeley, home of Chez Panisse, the restaurant she founded in 1971.Waters is author of nine cookbooks, head of the Chez Panisse Foundation, vice president of Slow Food (as in the opposite of fast food) International. And this week, she will be rubbing elbows with the global...