July 28, 2008

Volume 86, Number 30

An Appetite For Science


For Food Network host Alton Brown, science plays more than a cameo role

Corinne A. Marasco

Alton Brown readily admits that he was an undistinguished science student. “I took physics, chemistry, and biology in college, and they were all boring beyond words,” he says. “None of it mattered. None of it applied. It was taught mostly by people who wanted to get tenure and write grants. It was only when I decided that the answer to most of my problems was science that I became interested.”

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