There’s an episode of Good Eats where his character has a heart attack (the oatmeal episode), but so far as I know, he’s never had one in real life, and anything I can find about it on Google indicates that there may have been a rumor of him having a heart attack, but nothing substantiated.
I think that was the tuna episode.
Seems you’re right. Sorry. I could have sworn I heard/read it somewhere that was not Good Eats and that explained his weight loss. Seems he was just getting too big and decided to slim down. It also seems to have turned him into an asshole though.
Take a look. I for one don’t see anything even remotely resembling blonde. It all looks dark to me.
You’re right. It was the “The Other Red Meat” episode on tuna.
She looks close to strawberry blonde or even dirty/dishwater blonde in some of those photos. It depends on the lighting and the picture.
This. I HATE cooking as competition.
I did appreciate Good Eats as an education about cooking, especially about the physics of the art, but I won’t watch AB or anybody else on these stupid reality/competition shows.
The Frugal Gourmet was also really good, except for the whole molestation accusations.
Which, fortunately, was not part of the show.
My cooks have addressed me as Chef almost every place I’ve been. The ones that werent screwups called me Dan.
Yeah, that’s her. I remember her as a golden or strawberry blonde; judging from those photos, the coloring did change (or appear to change) from time to time.
Just trying to remember when I watched the show; it must have been some time in the mid-90s, when I first tried making custard according to their recipe.
(Alton B. had a blog (don’t know if he still does) which I looked at a few years ago and I couldn’t help he came across as morose, humorless, and … well, pissy. So I’m not surprised at these posts.)
I don’t know that cooking shows featuring people just cooking stuff would go over any more. I don’t know why not, there is a new generation that could benefit from watching a few cooking demonstrations. But the network wants the personalities, the drama. And everything that can be cooked has been cooked on air. Rachel Ray put the nail in that coffin.
I miss Unwrapped, but that’s run its course unless they start going to factories making junk food overseas.
Still there (haven’t read it though):
Gordon Ramsay did another show called Gordon’s Great Escape. In the first three-part series, he traveled around India, learning various local recipes. In the second series, he traveled around Southeast Asia, learning other local recipes. Basically, I wish he’d return to making shows in the UK, since the shows he made there involved less shouting and were more instructive. (But I suspect that Fox in the US pays better than the UK networks.)
And I think that Food Network spun off a second channel called the Cooking Channel specifically to feature the instructional-type shows that Food Network originally ran.
He has a new show made/airing in the UK now called “Gordon Behind Bars” (in which he’s trying to set up a cooking/baking business in a prison).
Well, I hope that BBC America shows it soon.
I started making fun of this very thing a few months ago with friends and relatives in the kitchen. Some of them don’t get it right away, but once I explain it, we bark at each other in the same way, except we’re ALL the chef. 
Remember that old Cajun guy, Justin somethingorother? “You’re gonna like it, I guarantee it!”
Justin Wilson. He’s gone, but lives on through the magic of the Internet. Here he is cooking and telling stories (YouTube).
What? Justin Wilson would never say that! It’s “I gar-own-tee!”