"GoodEats" news and stories

I recently got a sausage-making attachment for my KitchenAid mixer. I had recipes, but I knew that I'd seen an episode of Good Eats about making sausages. What did I do? I found the transcript on the Good Eats Fan Page. Transcripts are just the tip of the iceberg, however. Aside from the main fan page, which hosts everything from crew bios and interviews to season-by-season quizzes, there's a fan page just for Alton Brown, a GE message board, and (shrug) a GE Humor Page with haiku and plenty of other fanaticism. Truly, this is an overwhelming resource.

Alton Brown is hitting the highway in 2006 to bring the food network a new show, Feasting on Asphalt. The show will chronicle Alton’s road trip across the US on Route 66. According to the Food Network, he will be riding his motorcycle and stopping by “secret hamburger hideaways” and “delicious truck stop diners.” By adding Alton as the headlining food celebrity on yet another non-cooking travel show, perhaps the Food Network is trying to convert some of his Good Eats fans to the new network format. Personally, while the food at some of these places might be good, I don’t think that the “culinary heritage of America” will be found there. With a good dictionary, the network might discover that “heritage” means an inheritance or tradition passed down through the generations. It seems unlikely that the country, having been around far longer than biker bars, would have gotten the bulk of its “good eats” from them.