Host of one of the best cooking shows ever made. A unique combination of cooking science, history and cooking equipment overview with a touch of humor and cast of unforgettable characters. Each episode focuses on a particular food or ingredient, such as steak, garlic, squid, gravy, eggplant (yes, eggplant), etc. The recipes are simple and easy to reproduce.
I learned to cook a steak and baked potatoes the best way from watching alton brown on Good Eats.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)