Good eats: the final years - alton brown

Brown, Alton: - Alton Brown was directing TV commercials when he got the crazy idea to go to culinary school and reinvent the food show.

The result: Good Eats , which has kept Brown gainfully employed for more than 20 years and earned him a Peabody Award.

Along the way he also hosted Iron Chef America, Cutthroat Kitchen, and Feasting on Asphalt .

Browns live culinary variety shows have played to sold-out theaters across the United States.

He lives in Marietta, Georgia.