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56-667: Colombe Jacobsen-Derstine (born December 21, 1977) is an American chef and actress. She attended the Natural Gourmet School in New York City, and competed in the 2007 season of The Next Food Network Star . She currently hosts Colombe du jour , her own food-related website and blog. As an actress, she is best known for her child roles, including Julie "The Cat" Gaffney in the film series The Mighty Ducks . Born in Chicago, Jacobsen-Destine began her career as

112-472: A campaign for Cargill . In 2020, he began doing commercials for Healthy Choice 's line of low-fat, low-calorie, vegetable-based "Power Dressings", In 2022, he began appearing in commercials for the supplement Neuriva. In 2012, Brown gained popularity by pioneering the use of humorous "Analog Tweets", wherein he posts pictures of hand-drawn Twitter responses on Post-it Notes which he has stuck to his computer monitor. On June 28, 2013, Alton Brown joined

168-708: A child actor, making her film debut in 1993. The following year, she was cast as a hockey player in D2: The Mighty Ducks . In 1996, she played the same role in D3: The Mighty Ducks . Following an extended acting break, she attended the Natural Gourmet School in New York, where she graduated in 2004. During her culinary training, she worked as an actress in the films Men in Black II , Moonlight Mile , and Searching for Haizmann . Prior to

224-641: A few traditionally single-purpose devices, such as rice cookers and melon ballers , into multipurpose tools. The pilot for Good Eats first aired in July 1999 on the PBS member TV station WTTW in Chicago. Food Network picked up the show in July 1999. Many of the Good Eats episodes feature Brown building makeshift cooking devices in order to point out that many of the devices sold at conventional "cooking" stores are simply fancified hardware store items. Good Eats

280-732: A hiatus of several months while Brown worked on his Food Network shows, the tour resumed in October 2014 and concluded on April 4, 2015, in Houston, Texas, after visiting more than 60 cities. Brown mounted a second tour show, Alton Brown Live: Eat Your Science, in 2016. The show toured through the fall of 2017. All totaled, Brown's shows have played over 225 dates including Broadway. Both his tours have included "large, unusual and probably dangerous" food demonstrations, audience participation, and even food songs performed by Brown and his combo. Brown has been quoted as saying his final tour will launch in

336-526: A program on kitchen and cooking basics for The Cooking Channel that ran November, 2010–2013. Season five of The Next Food Network Star premiered on June 7, 2009. Food Network executives Bob Tuschman and Susie Fogelson were joined by Bobby Flay as the Selection Committee for this season, which was filmed early 2009 in New York, New York and Miami, Florida . Melissa D'Arabian was declared

392-449: A role in the guidance and selection process. Amy Finley was chosen by America as The Next Food Network Star on July 22, 2007. Her new show The Gourmet Next Door premiered on October 14, 2007 and ran for six episodes. Finley later declined to continue with the series, citing relocation to France for family reasons. Among the contestants this season was former child actress Colombe Jacobsen-Derstine , best known for her appearances in

448-563: A second chance after winning the Comeback Kitchen competition, along with Adam Gertler, who originally competed in season four. Alton Brown Alton Crawford Brown Jr. (born July 30, 1962) is an American television personality, food show presenter, food scientist, author, voice actor, and cinematographer . He is the creator and host of the Food Network television show Good Eats that ran for 16 seasons, host of

504-573: A second run, Feasting on Asphalt 2: The River Run , in 2007. Six episodes were filmed between April and May 2007. The episodes trace the majority of the length of the Mississippi River through Brown's travels. The second run of episodes began airing on Food Network on August 4, 2007. The third season uses the title Feasting on Waves and has Brown traveling the Caribbean by boat in search of local cuisine. In 2013, Brown began hosting

560-492: A show in which he went to several cities and ate an entire day's worth of meals on 24 dollars. Mauro is currently a co-host on "The Kitchen", airing Saturday mornings on Food Network with cohosts Sunny Anderson, Katie Lee and Geoffrey Zakarian. Season 8 started May 13, 2012. For season 8, the format changed, with the contestants divided into three five-member teams, each coached by a Food Network host, either Bobby Flay , Alton Brown , or Giada De Laurentiis . Coaches worked with

616-576: A third season. A third planned season of Good Eats Reloaded was also cancelled, but the recipes planned for the series were included as part of Brown's "Good Eats 4: The Final Years" cookbook. In 2004, Brown appeared on Iron Chef America: Battle of the Masters . This was the second attempt to adapt the Japanese cooking show Iron Chef to American television (the first being UPN 's Iron Chef USA , which featured William Shatner ). Brown served as

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672-641: Is known on the show as "Alton's Spawn"), but most of his "family" portrayed on the series were actors or members of the show's production crew. Brown and Atlanta restaurant designer Elizabeth Ingram became engaged in 2018. Brown posted in September 2018 that he and Ingram had married on a boat in Charleston, South Carolina. In the fifth episode of Season 18 of Worst Cooks in America (2020), Brown referred to his current wife as his third wife. Brown

728-653: The Good Eats style, employing the use of unusual camera angles, informational text, props, visual aids, scientific explanations, and the same method of delivery. These infomercials are distributed to wholesale distributors of appliances/plumbing devices. Brown has also aided GE in developing a new type of oven. He was initially called by GE to help their engineers learn more about the effects of heat on food; that grew into an active cooperation to develop GE's Trivection oven . Brown has promoted Colgate toothpaste, Dannon yogurt , Welch's , Shun knives , and Heifer International . In 2010, he endorsed kosher salt use in

784-477: The Mighty Ducks film franchise. ^Note 1  : Amy Finley was eliminated Week 7, and the original finalists were Rory Schepisi and Joshua "JAG" Garcia. After the final elimination episode was aired, evidence came to light that JAG had lied about both his culinary training and his military service, representing both as more extensive than they actually were. Food Network allowed him to withdraw from

840-533: The Nerdist Podcast Network with his podcast The Alton Browncast , covering food news, men's style, music and other topics. Through February 15, 2017, 68 episodes have been produced. With the COVID-19 quarantine in 2020 and the subsequent delays in production on Season 16 of Good Eats (Season 2 of "The Return"), Alton took to YouTube to make two new online cooking series. Pantry Raid

896-445: The eighth season of the series; she returned after winning the pre-season competition Comeback Kitchen . Matthew Grunwald originally competed in season 11. He returned for a second chance after winning the Comeback Kitchen competition. This season features Manny Washington and Katie Dixon from MasterChef (American season 7) and Palak Patel who beats Bobby Flay . Amy Pottinger originally competed in season 13. She returned for

952-601: The Flavor to the Doritos". He was originally scheduled to appear in a summer 2020 episode, as he revealed in a livestream in March 2020, however did not happen due to the COVID-19 pandemic . Brown has done commercial work for General Electric products, including five infomercials touting the benefits of GE refrigerators, washers and dryers, water purifiers, Trivection ovens , and dishwashers. The infomercials are produced in

1008-778: The Food , and the Broadcast Media Award in 2011 for TV Food Personality/Host. He has also been nominated four additional times. Brown served as a mentor on Season 8 of The Next Food Network Star alongside Bobby Flay and Giada De Laurentiis . During Season 8, each mentor selected and mentored a team of five finalists. Alton's finalist, Justin Warner , was the Season 8 winner; however, Brown will not be producing Warner's show. Brown guest-starred in an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants titled " House Fancy " where he provides

1064-643: The Natural Gourmet School, Jacobsen attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she graduated in 2000. The Next Food Network Star The first season of The Next Food Network Star series was taped in February 2005, and was composed of five episodes in June 2005. Chicago area caterers Dan Smith and Steve McDonagh emerged as the winners, and went on to host a show called Party Line with Dan & Steve ; later titled Party Line with The Hearty Boys , which premiered on September 18, 2005. The runner-up, Deborah Fewell,

1120-472: The blue team mentor. The season debuted on January 5, 2020. In 2022, Netflix rebooted Iron Chef America as Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend , signing Brown as co-host with Kristen Kish . In October 2013, Brown launched Alton Brown Live: The Edible Inevitable Tour, his first national tour visiting 46 cities through March 2014. The show included stand-up comedy, talk show antics, a multimedia lecture, live music, and "extreme" food experimentation. After

1176-412: The competition and reinstated Amy Finley, who was voted The Next Food Network Star. Season four of The Next Food Network Star premiered on Sunday, June 1, 2008. Food Network executives Bob Tuschman and Susie Fogelson are joined by Bobby Flay as the selection committee for this season. Each new episode aired on Sundays at 10:00 PM EDT. For this season, the viewers no longer received the chance to vote for

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1232-622: The contestants were not divided into teams as in season 8. Many of this season's contestants had previously appeared on other Food Network shows. The winner was Damaris Phillips , decided by an audience vote cast on foodnetwork.com and announced live on August 11, 2013. Phillips hosted the Food Network show Southern at Heart for five seasons from 2013 to 2016. In 2018, she began co-hosting The Bobby and Damaris Show on Food Network with Bobby Flay. Phillips also cohosted "Southern and Hungry" with auto racing analyst Rutledge Wood in 2017. The winner

1288-499: The cooking competition series Cutthroat Kitchen on the Food Network. In each episode, four chefs are each given $ 25,000 with which to bid on items that can be used to hinder their opponents' cooking, such as confiscating ingredients or forcing them to use unorthodox tools and equipment. Three chefs are eliminated one by one, and the winner keeps their unspent money as the day's prize. The series premiered on August 11, 2013. In 2018, Brown hosted Season 18 of Worst Cooks in America as

1344-454: The expert commentator, a modified version of the role played by Dr. Yukio Hattori in the original show. When the show became a series, Brown began serving as the play-by-play announcer, with Kevin Brauch as kitchen reporter. Brown also served as the host for all five seasons of the spin-off The Next Iron Chef . Brown's third series, Feasting on Asphalt , explores the history of eating on

1400-535: The fall of 2020. Brown's third tour titled Alton Brown Live: Beyond the Eats was announced on his Twitter page in March 2021. The tour began in October 2021 and had several "legs" or overall tour runs, the last of which (done with added "holiday" materials) ran from November to December of 2024. Brown is the recipient of two James Beard Awards. He won the Best Book award in 2003 for his first book, I'm Just Here for

1456-545: The miniseries Feasting on Asphalt and Feasting on Waves , and host and main commentator on Iron Chef America and Cutthroat Kitchen . Brown is a best-selling author of several books on food and cooking. A recap series titled Good Eats Reloaded aired on Cooking Channel , and a true sequel series, Good Eats: The Return , ran from 2019 to 2021 on Food Network. Alton Brown was born July 30, 1962, in Los Angeles, California. Brown's father, Alton Crawford Brown,

1512-463: The move. Brown and his crew traveled around the United States via motorcycle in a four-part miniseries about the history of road food. Brown samples food all along his travel route. He includes a "history of food" segment documenting famous road trips and interviews many of the foodies he meets en route. The series premiered on Food Network on July 29, 2006. The miniseries was picked up for

1568-587: The new show would be called Good Eats Returns ; it premiered on the Food Network with the slightly revised title Good Eats: The Return on Sunday, August 25. Brown relaunched the show in two versions: as Good Eats Reloaded on Cooking Channel (which updates, reworks and adds to original Good Eats episodes), and on Food Network as Good Eats: The Return in August 2019 (all-new episodes). New episodes of Reloaded premiered in April 2020. New Return episodes were in

1624-593: The quality of cooking shows airing on American television, so he set out to produce his own show. In preparation, he enrolled in the New England Culinary Institute , graduating in 1997. Brown says he was a poor science student in high school and college, but he focused on the subject to understand the underlying processes of cooking. He is outspoken in his shows about his dislike of single-purpose kitchen utensils and equipment such as garlic presses and margarita machines , although he adapts

1680-580: The recipient of several Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He went on to the series, Ultimate Recipe Showdown , premiering February 17, 2008, and Guy Off The Hook on September 14, 2008. His reality competition Guy's Grocery Games debuted in October 2013 and has aired for 29 seasons. Fourth-place contestant Nathan Lyon began hosting his own series, A Lyon In the Kitchen , on the Discovery Health Channel in March 2007. Four of

1736-484: The rest of the season to maintain this system. Twenty years after the Omega Seamaster watch his father left him was stolen, Brown bought it from an eBay seller and had it restored. Brown changed his eating habits in 2009 in order to lose weight and become healthier, losing 50 pounds (23 kg) over the course of nine months. Brown discussed his Christian beliefs in a 2010 interview with Eater . He said at

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1792-621: The season, the contestants lived in a shared house in New York City. The contestants' challenges included cooking concession food for an NBA game (with guest Darryl Dawkins ) to a mini version of Food Network's Iron Chef America (with guest judges Bobby Flay and Cat Cora ). The Selection Committee consisted of Food Network executives Bob Tuschman and Susie Fogelson along with one guest. Guest judges included Alton Brown , Giada De Laurentiis , Duff Goldman , season two winner Guy Fieri, and Robert Irvine. Paula Deen and Rachael Ray participated in contestant challenges, and Bobby Flay also played

1848-503: The seasons cast members along with Fieri reunited on Season 10 episode 4 of Guy’s Grocery Games which aired on July 31, 2016. The third season began on June 3, 2007, and the winner was announced on Sunday, July 22. In season 3, judges sent 1 or 2 contestants home weekly. Once the field was down to 2 final contestants, the viewers picked the winner. Marc Summers (host of the first 2 seasons) only returned for this season's finale. Bobby Flay would host subsequent season finales. During

1904-483: The series premiered on Sunday, June 6, 2010. Food Network executives Bob Tuschman and Susie Fogelson were again joined by Bobby Flay as judges; in addition, Giada De Laurentiis served as an on-set mentor. On July 17, 2010, a post-competition recap and discussion show premiered on The Cooking Channel . Shows were filmed in Los Angeles, California and New York, New York. On August 15, 2010, Aarti Sequeira

1960-524: The seventh season, the reality television series was renamed, after the first episode, Food Network Star , dropping the word "Next". It premiered Sunday, June 5, 2011. Food Network executives Bob Tuschman and Susie Fogelson were joined again by Bobby Flay and Giada De Laurentiis as the judges for this season. The series was filmed in Los Angeles, California and New York, New York. Season seven winner Jeff Mauro's show "Sandwich King" premiered on Sunday, August 21, 2011. In spring 2013, Jeff hosted $ 24 in 24 ,

2016-664: The success of the first such "episode", the once-weekly series was released live every Tuesday. The series continued off and on while the Browns went on tour in 2022, and only appeared sporadically in 2023. The last episode was live-streamed on July 25, 2023. Brown lives in Marietta, Georgia . He and his former wife DeAnna, an executive producer on Good Eats , divorced in 2015. They have one daughter born in 1999. A few members of his extended family appeared on Good Eats (such as his late grandmother, his mother, and daughter, who

2072-560: The table and we'll say grace . You know what? People are going to stare at you. I used to feel really self-conscious. But I've gotten to a point where I think, nah, I'm not going to feel bad about that. I'm not going to apologize about that. Brown said in a December 2014 interview in Time that he "could no longer abide the Southern Baptist Convention 's indoctrination of children and its anti-gay stance" adding that he

2128-451: The teams as they prepared for and completed their tasks. The winner's coach would also be the producer of the winner's show. Each week, a winning team was selected, and one member of the teams that did not win was up for elimination in a new feature called Producers' Challenge. Each challenge was hosted by current Food Network personalities. The final winner was decided by an audience vote cast on foodnetwork.com between July 15–17, 2012 and

2184-612: The time: I'm not a spooky snake handler because I live in Georgia and I'm Christian   [...] that I believe in the Bible, that I travel with the Bible, that I read the Bible every day. I'm still me. I'm still a guy doing a job. I find, actually, that people ask me a lot about it. I don't hit people over the head with the Bible   [...] I still feel a funny little tinge in my stomach when I'm out to dinner with my wife and daughter in New York. We'll go to dinner and we'll be sitting around

2240-613: The voice of Nicholas Withers , the host of the titular show. Brown appeared on the Travel Channel show The Layover with Anthony Bourdain which focused on the city of Atlanta in 2013. In the episode Bourdain takes Brown to the Clermont Lounge . Brown guest starred as the "Guest Bailiff " and "Expert Witness" in John Hodgman 's comedy/court show podcast Judge John Hodgman . In October 2017, Brown

2296-408: The winner on August 2, 2009 with the title for her show being Ten Dollar Dinners . Her show premiered on August 9, 2009. [1] On August 17, 2009, Food Network announced Jeffrey Saad would return in a series of online videos based on his pilot, now called "The Spice Smuggler." The program premiered with four 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 -minute videos featuring one spice and a recipe incorporating it. Saad

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2352-459: The winner was announced on July 22, 2012. The winner was Justin Warner , who hosted a one-hour special on The Food Network, but did not have a series produced. He has become a blogger on foodnetwork.com, makes appearances at Food Network events, and is an active Twitter presence. Season 9 started on June 2, 2013. For season 9, Alton Brown , Bobby Flay , and Giada De Laurentiis mentored and judged twelve Food Network Star competitors, although

2408-459: The winner; producers instead made the final decision. This led to an error by FoodNetwork.com, which briefly posted the winning moment video on their website three days before the finale aired. The winner for the fourth season was Aaron McCargo Jr. His winning show idea, Big Daddy's House , first aired August 3, 2008. Finalist Adam Gertler was hired to host a Food Network show called Will Work for Food , which debuted on January 19, 2009 and

2464-498: The writing process and planned to be filming over the summer of 2020, but were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic . These episodes eventually saw release, initially as an exclusive on the new Discovery+ streaming service. In June 2021, the episodes premiered on Food Network as a companion to the Chopped : Alton's Maniacal Baskets tournament. On July 13, 2021, Brown announced that Good Eats: The Return would not be returning for

2520-458: Was Lenny McNab , decided by an audience vote cast on foodnetwork.com and announced live on August 10, 2014. It is the last season to date where the finale aired live—all subsequent season finales would be filmed months in advance prior to airing. Beginning with this season, Alton Brown no longer appeared as a judge. The winner was Eddie Jackson, an ex NFL player and MasterChef (American season 4) contestant. Martita Jara originally competed in

2576-532: Was a media executive in Cleveland, Georgia ; owner of radio station WRWH; and publisher of the newspaper White County News . He died on Alton's last day of sixth grade from an apparent suicide. Brown studied film at the University of Georgia in the early 1980s, and got his start in television as the cinematographer for music videos, including " The One I Love " by R.E.M. Brown was dissatisfied with

2632-554: Was a series of once-weekly shorts (usually released on Fridays or Saturdays) for making palatable foods while staying safe at home. The episodes were filmed in the Good Eats test kitchens at Brain Food Productions and consisted of Alton and a cameraman as the only personnel onsite. Quarantine Quitchen [aka "QQ"] started as a single livestream titled "The Browns Make Dinner", referring to Alton and his wife Elizabeth making dinner at their loft apartment in Georgia. After

2688-426: Was announced as the winner on April 23, 2006, beating Reggie Southerland. Fieri has achieved considerable success and a Daytime Emmy at Food Network since his victory, and is still regularly on air as of February 2024. Guy's Big Bite premiered in June 2006 and aired for 13 seasons until December 2016. Fieri's second series, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives , premiered in April 2007 and has aired for 33 seasons, being

2744-555: Was cancelled after one season. He hosted the Food Network show Kid in a Candy Store, which aired two seasons. Kelsey Nixon co-hosted a web show on food2.com (a Food Network sister site aka Cooking Channel ) and also appeared in the premiere of Chefs vs. City in 2009. In 2010, Gertler and Nixon became co-hosts of The Next Food Network Star After Party , a half-hour recap/interview show following that night's episode of Star , on Cooking Channel . Nixon stars in Kelsey's Essentials ,

2800-430: Was changed in late 2018 when Brown made arrangements with The Cooking Channel to air "revised" versions of several episodes with new recipes titled Good Eats Reloaded , in which he stated new episodes of Good Eats are also in the works. Thirteen episodes of Good Eats Reloaded aired in late winter and early spring 2019, and were added to the Good Eats reruns on The Cooking Channel. It was announced on June 5, 2019, that

2856-493: Was chosen to host a special on food at beaches, Surf N Turf , which aired in June 2006. Michael Thomas was the recurring chef on The Tyra Banks Show . Susannah Locketti made an appearance on The Tony Danza Show , and is also an on-air chef for Publix grocery stores in the southern United States . The second season of The Next Food Network Star series was taped in December 2005 and began airing in March 2006. Guy Fieri

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2912-464: Was declared the winner, and her new show Aarti Party premiered on Sunday, August 22, 2010 and features American style cuisine with unique Indian flair. Season 2 of Aarti Party premiered that December. The Food Network also signed runner-up Tom Pizzica to host a new show called Outrageous Food , which premiered in November 2010. The last new episodes of Aarti Party aired in mid-2013. For

2968-459: Was featured on the Food Network television show Chopped in a five-part series called "Alton Brown's Challenge". Brown voiced Yum Labouché in Big Hero 6: The Series . The character is a judge for an underground cooking competition. Brown appeared on episode 196 of MythBusters titled "Food Fables". In June 2022, he appeared on the web series Good Mythical Morning episode "Match

3024-477: Was named the national representative for the American Egg Board. In November, 2010, Saad debuted in a new show for The Cooking Channel titled United Tastes of America , which explores multiple aspects of traditional American food. Finalist Debbie Lee has carried her "Seoul to Soul" concept to the streets of L.A., opening a lunch truck, Ahn-Joo, featuring a range of Korean food. The sixth season of

3080-632: Was nominated for the Best TV Food Journalism Award by the James Beard Foundation in 2000. The show was also awarded a 2006 Peabody Award . In May 2011, Alton Brown announced an end to Good Eats after 14 seasons. The final episode, "Turn on the Dark", aired February 10, 2012. On Alton's 2017 book tour, he stated that Good Eats would have a sequel and that it would be released to the internet in 2018. This

3136-470: Was once a motorcycling enthusiast, although he no longer owns one. Additionally, Brown is an airplane pilot , and was featured in the aviation magazine AOPA Flight Training . He owned two planes, a Cessna 206 and a Cessna 414 . Brown likes vintage watches and wore a different watch for every season of Good Eats ; this was used in production to quickly identify which season a clip is from. Once, his watch broke midseason, and he continued to wear it for

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