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Eater's Digest

Alton Brown

Eater's Digest

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Food, Comedy, Arts, News Commentary, Improv

4.4902 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Legendary television host and cookbook author Alton Brown drops by the Upsell studio to talk about the changing shape of food TV, the weirdness and wonderfulness of fame, life on the road, the military strategy of Cutthroat Kitchen, and how making dinner has evolved over the years from a chore to a cultural statement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the last episode of season one of the eater upsell.

0:03.1

Season two will be coming out next spring.

0:05.4

To make sure you get that season when it starts,

0:07.4

please subscribe to the podcast.

0:09.2

And as always, if you like the show, please rate us on iTunes.

0:13.0

It's the best way to let us know that you are out there listening.

0:16.0

Greg, I have a question for you.

0:20.0

Yes.

0:21.0

Have you ever been to Waffle House?

0:22.0

I've never been to a Waffle House before. I've also never been to a Waffle House. Oh, really? Yeah. I thought you were going to say like, okay, let me tell you about Waffle House. No, I was actually hoping you could tell me about Waffle House. No, I feel like we have to get our foodie badges revoked now.

0:39.0

Today in the Eater Upsell studio, Greg and I are talking with Alton Brown.

0:43.0

You've probably seen this guy on TV if you've lived and breathed over the last 15 years.

0:47.7

He's super rad.

0:48.7

It's going to be awesome.

0:49.7

We're going to talk to him in just a minute.

0:59.0

Well, that's the thing, right, is that everybody is obsessed with Waffle House. Yeah, it's the high and low end, you know, thing.

1:02.0

Well, it also, though those strikes me that it is the thing of people's

1:06.6

childhoods.

1:07.5

Right.

1:08.5

If you grew up in a certain part of the United States,

1:11.1

like I have a very deep emotional relationship to Denny's, which arguably could be

1:17.2

considered the Waffle House of the Midwest.

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