Good Eats: The Final Years

by Alton Brown

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

We are delighted with this new entry in the Good Eats series of cookbooks from the extraordinary yet accessible Alton Brown. As usual, the additional content about the history of cooking and insider info makes it clear he's always been about more than just the recipes. Like previous entries in the series, The Final Years is full of sumptuous, you-can-almost-taste-it photography.

An instant New York Times bestseller, Good Eats: The Final Years collects must-have recipes and surprising food facts from Peabody Award winner Alton Brown, drawn from the return of the beloved Good Eats television series, including never-before-aired material.
This fourth and final volume in the bestselling Good Eats series of cookbooks draws on two reboots of the beloved television show by the inimitable Alton Brown—Good Eats Reloaded and Good Eats: The Return. With more than 150 new and improved recipes for everything from chicken parm to bibimbap and cold brew to corn dogs, accompanied by mouthwatering original photography, The Final Years is the most sumptuous and satisfying of the Good Eats books yet.
Inside, you will find such sumptuous recipes for:

• Broiled Butterfried Chicken
• Chocolate Mocha Refrigerator Cake
• Thermal Shock Sirloin
• Bagels from Scratch
• Stovetop Mac-N-Cheese-N-Spinach
• Gluten-Free Cornmeal Pancake
• and many more!

Brown’s surefire recipes are temptation enough: The headnotes, tips, and sidebars that support them make each recipe a journey into culinary technique, flavor exploration, and edible history. Striking photography showcases finished dishes and highlights key ingredients, and handwritten notes on the pages capture Brown’s unique mix of madcap and methodical. The distinctive high-energy and information-intensive dynamic of Good Eats comes to life on every page, making this a must-have cookbook for die-hard fans and newcomers alike.

Good Eats series:
Good Eats: The Early Years
Good Eats 2: The Middle Years
Good Eats 3: The Later Years
Good Eats 4: The Final Years

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781419753527
Publisher:	Abrams
Publication date:	04/26/2022
Pages:	432
Sales rank:	155,107
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Alton Brown was directing TV commercials when he got the crazy idea to go to culinary school and reinvent the food show. The result: Good Eats, which has kept Brown gainfully employed for more than 20 years and earned him a Peabody Award. Along the way he also hosted Iron Chef America, Cutthroat Kitchen, and Feasting on Asphalt. Brown’s live culinary variety shows have played to sold-out theaters across the United States. He lives in Marietta, Georgia.

Editorial Reviews

05/01/2022

Although the popular TV show Good Eats may be ending (note "Final" in the book title), host Brown has put out another cookbook in his series based on the beloved show. In this volume he covers recipes cooked on Good Eats Reloaded and Good Eats, The Return, plus a bonus section from Good Eats, The Lost Season. The TV show, equal parts Julia Child and Mister Wizard with a generous scoop of Monty Python thrown in, has made understanding the science of cooking an entertaining enterprise and Brown's relaxed and inviting tone is evident throughout the book. Included are straightforward culinary science details and easy to follow recipes with plenty of pictures from the show (even backstage shots). The recipes follow the episodes' order so there's a little of everything a range of cooks might need: seasoning a cast iron pan; perfecting a patty melt; working with flatbreads; churning ice cream. The recipes are geared to everyday home cooks with lots of sidebars and no technical jargon. The intent is to explain concepts so readers understand exactly how cooking works. VERDICT Fans of the show and its host, as well as those interested in the science of cooking, will find joy in this laid-back offering.—Ginny Wolter

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