Alton Crawford Brown is a popular American celebrity chef, reality television personality, author, cinematographer, and actor. He started out his career with film productions and cinematography and continued to do it for over a decade but soon, his love for cooking and culinary art took over him and he aspired to become a chef on television. He says that his love for cooking was instilled in him by his mother and grandmother but he did not only rely on his love for it and got himself trained by the New England Culinary Institute. Soon after, he created his own cookery show on television titled "Good Eats". It is the most popular cookery show of his career and became an instant hit with the audience for its cooking innovations combined with humor, science, and technique. It ran on the Food Network for around 12 years, establishing Brown as a charismatic expert on cooking. He did many other reality cooking shows on American television and also wrote books on his experience with food and cooking. Whether he is cooking on television or writing a cookery book or making a guest appearance on a cooking show or delivering food news on his podcast, he always manages to rediscover the disappearing people, places, and stories of great American food.