Interview by Megan Smith
The word on the street is that cooking shows bored the heck out of Alton Brown and he thought he could do better. Taking his film background, he headed off to the New England Culinary Institute to hone his skills and eventually landed on Food Network. It’s a rarity to meet someone that actually goes after a big dream, and even rarer when that big dream becomes the exact reality hoped for. What made that possible? Guts? Instinct? Drive? For Alton, it was “Simple. Just a lack of other choices.”
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