Good Eats, the only instructional cooking show on prime time, lures more than 20 million viewers a month to the Food Network, thanks to its quirky humor, geeky insights, and DIY ethos. So it's no surprise that star Alton Brown, who also writes and directs each episode, brings those same traits to his James Beard Foundation Award -- winning cookbooks. Ahead of the debut of his latest, Good Eats 2: The Middle Years, we ask the Atlanta native to walk us through his kitchen and tell us about some of his favorite devices. If you're expecting a place packed with culinary paraphernalia, you'll be disappointed. "I use less and less stuff each year," says Brown. "My wife and I went to see the rebuild of Julia Child's kitchen in Washington, D.C., and we were both shocked to see the amount of junk in there. Tools that do one little obscure job. I thought to myself: I couldn't live in here! I'd suffocate."
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Author: Kate Rockwood
