Alton’s Future Cookbooks to Enter the Digital Age by Maria Russo in Food Network Chef, October 10th, 2011
The third and final installment of Alton Brown’s Good Eats cookbook series hit store shelves last week and the new volume is overflowing with colorful anecdotes, behind-the-scenes shots and a whopping 225 recipes from 85 Good Eats episodes.
We caught up with Alton at the New York City Wine and Food Festival last weekend and discussed his plan for future electronic cookbooks. Of the potential switch from paper to screen, Alton said, “I don’t know how it’s going to change things. I hope to make the cookbook a more kitchen-friendly device, to make it something where you can choose which knowledge you get, which information you get, when you get it and what order you get it in, so that people can adapt the information to the way they cook, instead of changing the way they cook to the way I cook.” He said that ideally, his series of e-book ventures would be available on the Kindle and Apple iPad, as the latter offers bright video and graphic possibilities.
An avid cookbook collector myself, I asked Alton how he envisions consumers accumulating his texts in a digital library. “I’m hoping that over time, they’ll be able to curate all their favorite recipes from different applications and different e-books that I publish into their own little kind of recipe book,” he said. Leave it to the food science guru to use technology to challenge and expand the limits of traditional cookbooking while increasing ease of use and accessibility for his fans.
Catch Alton on a brand-new season of The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs premiering Sunday, October 30, at 9pm/8c.
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Tags: Alton Brown, Alton Brown cookbook, Cookbooks
How is there an "advanced sneak peek copy" when the book is already in stores? The dumbing down of Food Network.
All the commentors have become out of line.
How can I get a single index that has all the references for all the Good Eats cookbooks in one place? I love all three, but hate to have to look in 3 different places to find one cookie recipe. Help!
I have Good Eats, The Early Years and it is as good as the hype. Good Eats V III is on my Christmas list. Love, LOVE Alton Brown's Good Eats show, it's on my dvr to record and I learn so much!
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