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An Alton Brown Cookout
Kooky Cooking Tips Show the Art and Science of Food Preparation
 Listen to Korva Coleman's report.
Listen as Alton cooks "Rocket Hot Melon Menagerie" (special for the Web).
 Read recipes by Alton Brown.
 Watch Brown give some sage advice on soy sauce.
Watch Brown cook salmon in a trash can.
June 30, 2002 --
Alton Brown uses all kinds of strange implements for cooking: hair dryers, telephone books, trash cans. But, he says, "The brain is the most important tool in cooking."
On his TV show Good Eats, which airs on The Food Network, Brown emphasizes the science of cooking, but he does it always with tasty results in mind. It is science in service of culinary art.
For All Things Considered,, Brown recently met with NPR's Korva Coleman in a Washington, D.C., backyard to show off some of his more entertaining techniques and to talk about his new book, I'm Just Here for the Food: Food + Heat = Cooking. "I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher," he says.
That goofiness has a purpose -- to get people to pay attention to what he has to teach them about food. And sometimes, the goofiness is a natural byproduct of his unorthodox techniques -- as when he dons welding gloves so he can handle hot charcoal.
Other Resources
• Brown's Web site, with more cooking recipes, ideas and anecdotes.
• Brown's favorite links, including a food safety site and chemical weight and measure equivalents.
• Brown's bio on The Food Network's Web site.
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