One of my favorite healthy breakfast staples is steel cut oatmeal. It started when we saw the "Oat Cuisine" episode on The Food Network's Good Eats with Alton Brown. I have been making a variation of his recipe on a weekly basis ever since. (I do not use butter, I...
Here's something we watched while my blog was getting redesigned. It's the Alton Brown diet plan — the January 4 episode of Good Eats, titled "Live and Let Diet." We had noticed, going back to a recent season of Alton Brown's Feasting on Asphalt, that the guy had...
The thought of Thanksgiving dinner coming up and people having to figure out how to carve the bird reminds me of two extremely helpful things: The baseline cutting trick, as demonstrated by Alton Brown in the video above from his Food Network show Good Eats. This...
I have written here before about Good Eats — about the steel-cut oatmeal show, the gumbo show. Good Eats is one of my all-time favorite shows on television. At the same time, I currently loathe the Food Network. Where I once looked...
Here is the gumbo recipe from Alton Brown: Shrimp Gumbo.This is yet another example of why I think Good Eats is one of the best shows in the history of television: Not only does Alton Brown give us an entertaining half hour of viewing, but we also get some real life,...
Poet Stanley Kunitz died on Sunday. In one obituary there was a quote from him which began, "The deepest thing I know is that I am living and dying at once ..." At age 45 and counting, I feel the same thing, and that makes it harder to waste time on many of the...