Alton Brown:
Well, everything has changed, more than I ever could have fathomed. At the time that I started “Good Eats,” if you wanted the recipes, you had to send a self-addressed stamped envelope into this place in Ipswich, New York, I remember, in order to get things back.
There was no, what, Internet. We were on dial-up, the ones of us that were very sophisticated. I think that food’s role in society and culture has, of course, amplified, which is greatly due to Food Network, but then also proliferated and mutated in a way that concerns me as someone who has spent most of my professional life trying to teach people how to cook.
I think that food has moved into a lot of spaces it probably shouldn’t be in. We look at it more than we think about it. We fetishize it more than we share it. So I worry about food. I worry about cooking and I worry about food and its place in culture in general now. I never would have seen this kind.
