Some photos of Alton Brown weekend events

I'm still processing the photos and the weekend from seeing another fabulous Alton Brown demo. While I work on my big post about the event. And the tales of the craziness at Friday's dinner, here are some photos to enjoy. And believe me, I have a few wild things to talk about this time!


Friday's dinner, AB was at the table next to mine.


From the demo Saturday.



I must say this year's event, billed as the Food Network Southern Food and Wine Festival, overall was not as good as the previous events in the Celebrity Chef Series. I'm not talking about AB's part, his demo was great just like always. And the meet and greet with him was awesome, as always. But with the combining of other hosts and events the whole thing was rushed.

In past years, attendees received items to have signed, apron one year and a poster another, but this year the "poster" included all of the FN hosts attending and was more of an advertisement versus a real poster like last year. The meet and greet was very rushed as well. In the years several items were allowed to be autographed and this year only one. I commented to Alton that I had planned for him to sign something else in addition to my prized item, but they only allowed one thing. He said it was wasn't his rule. I told him I knew it was the event people and their rules.