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Alton Brown was directing TV commercials when he got the crazy idea to go to culinary school and reinvent the cooking show. The result was Good Eats, an irreverent, science-forward program. Along the way he hosted iconic programs like Iron Chef America, Food Network Star, and Cutthroat Kitchen. Brown’s tenth book, a collection of essays and ruminations, Food for Thought, by Gallery Books comes out in February.
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What can guests expect from this, being your final tour?
...a culinary variety show, which I'd like to think is an entertainment form I invented inspired by the variety TV shows of the '70s where there's some spectacle, some comedy, some music, a mixed bag.
This particular show is kind of different from the shows that we've done before ... a lot more immersive storytelling using some technology that we haven't used before. There is a general theme that the show takes, and I will give away the fact that there's going to be quite a bit about steam in this show. We usually do at least one really, really, really large, really bizarre food demonstration where we build a large device that cooks something. This time we've made something that's about three times bigger than anything we've ever done. We even had to turn down some theaters because the stage wasn't big enough for the demo.
There's still a lot of audience interaction. There's going to be a lot of volunteer work up on the stage, and there's even a competition near the end of the show that I think is going to be a lot of fun.
