Alton Brown’s own private holocaust:
OK, so the Holocaust related tweets were dumb and insensitive but not enough for torches and pitchforks I think. Especially with the fast apology.
For the rest of it, Brown wrote
that while he’s “voted republican in previous years,” he both “voted for and strongly support[s]” Biden and Kamala Harris, along with Georgia Democratic Senate candidates Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, ahead of the January runoff election.
I don’t think Alton Brown is an anti-semite because of his comments or because he votes republican. I think Alton Brown seems to have a lack a filter and runs his mouth in stupid directions.
There are an awful lot of people that have that problem and no shortage that should stay away from twitter.
You gotta admit though, there is something squalid about the direction he chose to go with his analogy. If he was really in need for a good visual, he could have gone with Soviet era gulags, or Orwellian 1984 re-education camps. But no. He went with the holocaust, striped pajamas and gold fillings.
Pings my radar. Y’know?
Did anyone see him on Worst Cooks? He is not a nice man with a lot of anger that is barely controlled.
Never cared much for the guy and really never got the adulation. I’ll stick with J. Kenji Lopez-Alt.
I was somewhat surprised when I watched one of his YouTube videos a month or so ago and he kept randomly interjecting the fun cooking stuff with “Hunter Biden!” like some demented parrot.
There was a time some years ago when I’d watch Food Network and ‘Good Eats’ was among my favorite shows because it was science-y. I liked the nostalgia of him going back to re-do some of those shows with an updated format. As a cooking show host, AB was more interesting than most.
Kenji is great. But it’s an entirely different format/venue.
Really? I wasn’t aware. That’s just fucking weird.
I enjoyed his election night “meltdown” but I’ve learned not to pay too much attention to celebrities and either enjoy their works or not. I guess that “meltdown” was followed by some much more messed up stuff.
Precisely concur, word for word.
That said, he does seem to have simmering anger - or else that’s played up for T.V. like the American version of Gordon Ramsey, who isn’t nearly as prone to screaming as you’d think, and is actually quite gentle with children.
Life, being what it is, there’s plenty to be angry about. I find him relatable on some level.
Well, you have to be. They’re a lot like veal, or fish.
I’m going to hell for laughing as hard as I did at that, aren’t I?
What is it about chefs having personality issues? Ramsey, Brown, Bourdain, never mind Jeff Smith.
You shut your mouth!
I thought it was well known that Alton Brown was a conservative Republican. I’m glad that he’s pissed at the fawning over Trump and voted Dem in this election (seems like a lot of suburban Atlanta Republicans did - AB lives in Marietta, just NW of Atlanta).
Kenji is our go to. He seems like a genuinely nice guy. And his cookbooks are awesome.
We’ve never cared for Alton.
I will say that I’ve met Alton and he seemed to be the nicest dude ever. It’s little silly to be shocked that a white guy from Georgia has voted Republican in the past.
I remember reading an interview he did years ago when he was going through a divorce. I recall he made it clear he was a conservative and he usually carried a bible and CCW. So that part is hardly a new revelation. Making holocaust jokes, regardless of intent, is a total dick move and my knee-jerk reaction is to assume the joker is anti-semitic on some level.
I always enjoyed Good Eats because I’m very much a visual learner and he was the most accessible of the “chefs” on TV (Although I really liked Laura Clader as well). A lot of his recipes were a little… bland, but as someone upthread mentioned he liked to present the science behind cooking and give the viewer the why. I liked that, and would make notes as I watched reruns of his show.
But GE is old news by now. I haven’t had cable or satellite for years, but from what I understand his TV persona has morphed from a kind of goofy science teacher into an angry judgmental prick. Perhaps his early GE persona was all for show, or maybe he’s just become bitter and angry as he ages. [The article notes he made a joke to a kid: “If that guy next to you is your other daddy, I’m in the wrong state.” I don’t get it, but it sounds like a pedo joke.]