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An end to culinary tv pedagogy, or Alton Brown's Good Eats goes bye bye...

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The show should've been immortalized to run forever as one of Food Network's classic.

There are SO MUCH food you can cover. It's a shame.

Seriously, the cable network has so much time slots and not enough shows, all they run is MvF, No Reservations, & Bizarre Foods over and over and over again.
 
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his show had a lot of good info, but i just hated the way he talked and the general presentation of the show
 
Howard said:
doubt it. never even did fried rice
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That's because fried rice really didn't need its own show. His best shows were the ones where the focus wasn't on an ingredient it was on a technique. In that light you can watch the technique shows, pick up any random fried rice "recipe", and use the techniques to make pretty damn good fried rice.

Hell, if anything he stretched the show too far. So many of his later shows were "Here's some ingredient, a bit of history, and now 3 dishes". That was not what made his show good at all. If I wanted to see a themed recipe show I'd just turn on reruns of Ewok Legasse.
 
he needs to release them on bluray or dvd or something. unless he already has. in which case why havent i been informed?
 
I like the show but the way he made gumbo was pretty disappointing. Come on, tomatoes in gumbo? And who in the hell puts boudin in gumbo (I know he did not do it in the episode but he mentioned that people put it in there)? give me a break
 
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spidey07 said:
As long as you realize those evil comaniies made him rich. But do keep up the "corporations are evil" crap.
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You think Food Network is still valid?

Alton Brown is great, I love his show and everything, but he is the last remaining bastion of TV cooking programs. the rest is complete dogshit. ...And Alton isn't even a chef, they dispatched the real chefs a long time ago in favor of BS like Sandra Lee.

They made Alton well known, yes, and in the early days, touted guys like Batali, but the corporate broadcasting whore that much prefers content like Jersey fucking Shore (Rachel Ray, Sandra Lee--just as idiotic), are completely culpable in the demise of worthwhile content.

You're such a whore for your comcast tit it isn't even funny anymore, spidey.
 
randay said:
he needs to release them on bluray or dvd or something. unless he already has. in which case why havent i been informed?
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lol. they've been on DVD forever.

at least, in packets--Meat, Seafood episodes, etc. I have a couple of sets.

I'm not sure if they are released by season and episode.
 
They used to have the DVD's by season, and even did a boxed set of like the entire first 8 seasons, but they were wayyyy expensive, like $80+ per season and $500+ for the boxed set, IIRC. You had to buy them direct from Food Network as they were not available anywhere else (legitimately).
 
Howard said:
I think this argument was had before... anyway, he did go to school for cooking.
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I know. I don't mean to disparage Alton at all, I think he's awesome.

Just pointing out the difference between the tradition of successful or highly-regarded chefs with their own restaurants doing these programs as opposed to cooks.

Alton's is my second-favorite contemporary cooking show to Batali's.
 
zinfamous said:
You think Food Network is still valid?

Alton Brown is great, I love his show and everything, but he is the last remaining bastion of TV cooking programs. the rest is complete dogshit. ...And Alton isn't even a chef, they dispatched the real chefs a long time ago in favor of BS like Sandra Lee.
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who trained at le cordon bleu :sneaky:

They made Alton well known, yes, and in the early days, touted guys like Batali, but the corporate broadcasting whore that much prefers content like Jersey fucking Shore (Rachel Ray, Sandra Lee--just as idiotic), are completely culpable in the demise of worthwhile content.

You're such a whore for your comcast tit it isn't even funny anymore, spidey.
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they do have far too many shows where the concept is watching some fat guy stuff his face
 
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