In the tweet I sent along a little virtual card as well. I had to include a cute little corgi for AB too.
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July 30, 2011
It’s Alton Brown’s birthday!
Of course early this morning I sent a tweet to Alton Brown to wish him a happy birthday today. In case you didn't know it his 49th. Forty-nine and looking fine :)
In the tweet I sent along a little virtual card as well. I had to include a cute little corgi for AB too.
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In the tweet I sent along a little virtual card as well. I had to include a cute little corgi for AB too.
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July 26, 2011
Cook Smart vs Molecular Gastronomy
Odds are good if you've had any one of Alton Brown's cookbooks signed in recent years he has inscribe it with "cook smart." This simple, two-word phrase perfectly sums up AB's cooking philosophy, one he has propagated since 1999. Applying science and knowledge to how and why it effects food brings a better understanding to all who attempt the process of cooking. Needless to say, employing science in the kitchen and Alton are synonymous and no one on the Food Network is more identified with it.With his science geek outlook on food and cooking, it apparently shocked those in the food writing world that Alton is not a fan of current and all the rage food science trend--molecular gastronomy. At the American Culinary Federation's national convention in Dallas last weekend, AB talked about salt for the crowd of professional cooks. During said demonstration the topic of molecular gastronomy arose only to be quickly put in its proper place by Alton.
The quote which stirred the cliched pot for many food writers and champions of molecular gastronomy, “My worry about molecular gastronomy, especially with young cooks, is that they will try to use it to replace knowing how to cook food,” had the likes of Eater and The Village Voice pointing fingers for AB's lack of embracing this type of science in cooking and his disdain of using falsely created foam sauces.
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July 19, 2011
Alton Brown, Twitter and Burning Questions
Like an old fire horse still answering the bell, sometimes no matter how we try to give up our favorite activities something always draws us back. Case in point, the site and me. A few days ago I was all but ready to give up, throw in the proverbial towel and just maintain the site for archival purposes.
A funny thing happened on the way to the archives.
First, Alton started tweeting me. No one was more surprised than I to see a reply from AB and lo and behold there it was last Friday along with several others in the past few days. So, that got me thinking about what else may change if I only hang in and keep up the fight? Maybe something wonderful will happen (like AB follows my Twitter account) or I may be setting myself up for a bigger fall, who knows. However, right now I have decided, while working on restructuring the overall site, I will write about a few things... if I have the time. Blogger's new interface still sucks by the way so I will be heading over to the new site for that, http://news.altonbrownfans.com.
Besides, how could I stop doing something that I love (writing about cooking?) and helping others with their Alton Brown information? Or give up seeing some of the new, exiting and belly laugh producing searches?
Judging from the recent keyword analysis of the site, I'm going to have a lot to play with (insert maniacal laugh) now that Alton is conversing with the masses. In his first few months of tweeting, AB has managed to influence the keyword search terms on the site from benign cooking and show related searches to some more interesting queries.
Many people are searching for him on Twitter, understandably. However, I have to laugh and roll my eyes at the number of folks trying to figure out why AB is deleting his tweets. "Alton Brown deleting tweets" seems to be a favorite phrase of late. Which begs the question, why is it so important that he deletes or not deletes them? Why the uproar? They are his tweets and he can do what he damn well pleases with them, bottom line. It maybe be unorthodoxed to remove tweets but when has Alton been mainstream in what he does? If he were, Good Eats would be another dump and stir cooking show.
Alright, tweet removal is one thing and kinda funny seeing folks getting their collective panties in a wad over 24 hours, 12 hours, or whatever length the tweets remain on his page. Even better, however, is the increase in searches about AB being mean, nasty, ass, and/or jerk (not the seasoning). Yeah, it seems the Twitterfied AB is rubbing some people the wrong way. But I do offer one word of advice to potential searchers: if you're going to try to find out about someone, and if you can't get their name correct, at least spell the insult right. This was by far the best term of the week:
Seeing that was just what I needed to start the day with a laugh. Maybe the person meant he's a complete ass. I joke, of course, AB.
Although it hasn't been easy for me with Alton tweeting (still confused as to why he blocked my accounts back in May) and he even seems to be weary of it at times, I will remain here in some capacity. Well, not here as in Blogger but here as in lending my support and blathering.
A funny thing happened on the way to the archives.
First, Alton started tweeting me. No one was more surprised than I to see a reply from AB and lo and behold there it was last Friday along with several others in the past few days. So, that got me thinking about what else may change if I only hang in and keep up the fight? Maybe something wonderful will happen (like AB follows my Twitter account) or I may be setting myself up for a bigger fall, who knows. However, right now I have decided, while working on restructuring the overall site, I will write about a few things... if I have the time. Blogger's new interface still sucks by the way so I will be heading over to the new site for that, http://news.altonbrownfans.com.
Besides, how could I stop doing something that I love (writing about cooking?) and helping others with their Alton Brown information? Or give up seeing some of the new, exiting and belly laugh producing searches?
Many people are searching for him on Twitter, understandably. However, I have to laugh and roll my eyes at the number of folks trying to figure out why AB is deleting his tweets. "Alton Brown deleting tweets" seems to be a favorite phrase of late. Which begs the question, why is it so important that he deletes or not deletes them? Why the uproar? They are his tweets and he can do what he damn well pleases with them, bottom line. It maybe be unorthodoxed to remove tweets but when has Alton been mainstream in what he does? If he were, Good Eats would be another dump and stir cooking show.
Alright, tweet removal is one thing and kinda funny seeing folks getting their collective panties in a wad over 24 hours, 12 hours, or whatever length the tweets remain on his page. Even better, however, is the increase in searches about AB being mean, nasty, ass, and/or jerk (not the seasoning). Yeah, it seems the Twitterfied AB is rubbing some people the wrong way. But I do offer one word of advice to potential searchers: if you're going to try to find out about someone, and if you can't get their name correct, at least spell the insult right. This was by far the best term of the week:
Seeing that was just what I needed to start the day with a laugh. Maybe the person meant he's a complete ass. I joke, of course, AB.
Although it hasn't been easy for me with Alton tweeting (still confused as to why he blocked my accounts back in May) and he even seems to be weary of it at times, I will remain here in some capacity. Well, not here as in Blogger but here as in lending my support and blathering.
July 15, 2011
Dear Blogger, you suck plus Alton Brown info
Recently Blogger updated its interface to something that is not as user friendly with custom templates. Therefore, the old look of the site is not going to work any longer. All of that wonderful html coding and whatnot Blogger once allowed isn't available for the template I formerly used, so I have decided to revive the self-hosted Wordpress interface I started some time ago when debating the benefits of free versus free. Guess Blogger made that choice easier.
That site is: http//:news.altonbrownfans.com
As for a day-to-day updated posts like this site offered, I'm afraid that too will a thing of the past. In the few months Mr. Brown has been on Twitter, in addition to his updated site, I see no reason to write posts for news and information purposes. If you want news you can get it in real time with Mr. Brown, now.
In fact after everything that has transpired over the few months Mr. Brown has joined the Twitterverse had changed my outlook on many things regarding the site.. I had hoped all of the times I met Mr. Brown and our seemingly great interactions had gone a long way to build a great rapport, unfortunately that is not the current reality. He chose to block the fansite's old Twitter account along with my personal account for no reason. I never did anything but tweet questions and supportive statements to him, and replies to his tweets. Maybe someday I will get that answer to way he did it, who knows.
Today, however, he did reply to a tweet! So maybe not all is lost. The site's new handle is @altonbrown_fans
The most unfortunate thing for me not that he did this but that his new opinion colored his judgment toward the two fundraisers conducted here. I had hoped Mr. Brown would have sent a thank you to the readers who supported three causes near and dear to him. I'm a afraid, since the fundraiser was tainted by this site, he chose not to thank anyone who supported it. For that, I offer my deepest apology. My hope was he would send a personal thank you to be shared on site for those of you who supported the causes. Instead he chose not to thank you, the readers/his fans, for contributing. I am very sorry he didn't respond in anyway and I hope it was just an oversight on his part.
The old blog posts will remain for archival purposes, however, it will also be stored on the new blog as well. I am in the process of restructuring the overall fansite to include the old posts of how recipes turned out, show reviews, reports from events, etc. in their respective areas of the fansite. I want the information to remain for others to use and hope it will be of use to others. I may do write ups on some of the remaining recipes I want to try for the new blog, but I'm not making any promises about when that will start up again.
As for events, outside of Mr. Brown's October booktour for Good Eats 3, there is nothing currently scheduled so probably will not be including this type of news in any new incarnation of the blog. Again, I will retain the reports of previous events for others to read, along with photos and video from them.
By the way, the first of the three one-hour Good Eats specials, "Right on Q" airs Saturday, August 6.
I wish to thank everyone who read, commented, emailed, and helped build the site over the past three years. You guys are the best. Hope to catch ya around sometime in the future with the new version of the site.
oxoxo
Lisa
That site is: http//:news.altonbrownfans.com
As for a day-to-day updated posts like this site offered, I'm afraid that too will a thing of the past. In the few months Mr. Brown has been on Twitter, in addition to his updated site, I see no reason to write posts for news and information purposes. If you want news you can get it in real time with Mr. Brown, now.
In fact after everything that has transpired over the few months Mr. Brown has joined the Twitterverse had changed my outlook on many things regarding the site.. I had hoped all of the times I met Mr. Brown and our seemingly great interactions had gone a long way to build a great rapport, unfortunately that is not the current reality. He chose to block the fansite's old Twitter account along with my personal account for no reason. I never did anything but tweet questions and supportive statements to him, and replies to his tweets. Maybe someday I will get that answer to way he did it, who knows.
Today, however, he did reply to a tweet! So maybe not all is lost. The site's new handle is @altonbrown_fans
The most unfortunate thing for me not that he did this but that his new opinion colored his judgment toward the two fundraisers conducted here. I had hoped Mr. Brown would have sent a thank you to the readers who supported three causes near and dear to him. I'm a afraid, since the fundraiser was tainted by this site, he chose not to thank anyone who supported it. For that, I offer my deepest apology. My hope was he would send a personal thank you to be shared on site for those of you who supported the causes. Instead he chose not to thank you, the readers/his fans, for contributing. I am very sorry he didn't respond in anyway and I hope it was just an oversight on his part.
The old blog posts will remain for archival purposes, however, it will also be stored on the new blog as well. I am in the process of restructuring the overall fansite to include the old posts of how recipes turned out, show reviews, reports from events, etc. in their respective areas of the fansite. I want the information to remain for others to use and hope it will be of use to others. I may do write ups on some of the remaining recipes I want to try for the new blog, but I'm not making any promises about when that will start up again.
As for events, outside of Mr. Brown's October booktour for Good Eats 3, there is nothing currently scheduled so probably will not be including this type of news in any new incarnation of the blog. Again, I will retain the reports of previous events for others to read, along with photos and video from them.
By the way, the first of the three one-hour Good Eats specials, "Right on Q" airs Saturday, August 6.
I wish to thank everyone who read, commented, emailed, and helped build the site over the past three years. You guys are the best. Hope to catch ya around sometime in the future with the new version of the site.
oxoxo
Lisa
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