66. Alton Brown (Chef, Author) - Easy-Bake Oven/Hard Knock Life

Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

Big Think / Panoply

Arts, Society & Culture

4.6 • 594 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Since 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives. Cook, writer, and director Alton Brown is a living legend in food TV. Alton was the creator and host of the show “Good Eats”, which ran for 14 seasons on Food Network and has a 9/10 rating on IMDB which is basically unheard of (Casablanca is 8.6). He’s also known as the host of Iron Chef America, Cutthroat Kitchen, and Feasting on Asphalt, and is the author of many books. Alton’s latest book is “Everdaycook”, in which he shares his favorite personal recipes including the amazing looking Breakfast Carbonara, which makes pasta for breakfast not only ok, but mandatory. Alton and host Jason Gots talk about fire, their mutual childhood lust for the Betty Crocker Easy-Bake Oven and how everything worth doing might get you killed. Surprise conversation starter interview clips in this episode: Alison Gopnik on Parenting,Ethan Hawke on goal setting, Drew Ramsey on diet and depression Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, I'm Jason Gotts and you're listening to Think Again a Big Think podcast.
0:09.3	Since 2008, Big Think has been bringing you big ideas in little concentrated doses from some of the most creative thinkers around.
0:17.8	On Think Again, we step outside of our comfort zone, surprising our guests
0:21.9	and me, your host, with unexpected clips from Big Think's archives, ideas that we didn't
0:27.7	necessarily come here prepared to discuss. Today, I'm very, very happy to be joined by actor,
0:33.1	writer, and director, Alton Brown. Let me say that again, it's Alton. I'm not an actor as far as I know.
0:39.3	Oh, well they call you that on IMDB. They do? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They probably shouldn't. Well, I mean, you did voice on The Simpsons, didn't you? Boise on The Simpsons. I've done voice work on Disney projects. That's where I'm going today. So you're an actor.
0:52.7	I'm a cook.
0:54.9	I'm just a cook.
0:55.9	All right.
0:56.5	So cook, writer, projects, that's where I'm going today. So you're an actor? I'm a cook. I'm just a cook.
0:55.0	All right.
0:56.0	So, cook, writer and director, Alton Brown, a living legend in food TV.
1:02.0	And you may not be aware that he was the cinematographer for the video for REM's The One I
1:06.5	Love when he was a film student.
1:08.5	He was the creator and host of the show Good Eats, which ran for
1:11.7	14 seasons on food. 14 years. 14. I don't, we don't even know how many seasons it was. Okay,
1:17.7	countless seasons and 14 long, amazing years on food network and has a nine out of 10 rating
1:25.0	on IMDB, which is basically unheard of. Casablanca, by contrast,
1:28.4	is 8.6.
1:29.4	He's also known as the host of Iron Chef America, Cut Throat Kitchen, and Feasting
1:35.6	on Asphalt.
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