Alton Brown Books in Order

Alton Brown evaluates kitchen tools through their practical uses and the science of cooking. He favors equipment that serves multiple purposes, explains what deserves space in a home kitchen, and includes recipes that demonstrate the gear.

Alton Brown explores the science behind baking breads, cakes, cookies, pies, and custards. Explanations of mixing methods, ingredients, and heat accompany recipes, equipment guidance, and practical techniques for understanding why baked goods succeed or fail.

Alton Brown documents a motorcycle journey along the Mississippi River through photographs, travel notes, and recipes. Visits to diners, markets, barbecue stops, and other local establishments connect regional dishes with the people and places producing them.

Alton Brown revisits the early seasons of Good Eats through more than 140 recipes, cooking techniques, and food science. Behind-the-scenes photographs, production details, and trivia connect the television episodes with practical lessons for the home kitchen.

The second Good Eats companion collects recipes and lessons from the show's middle years, with photographs, drawings, and production trivia. Alton Brown explains cooking chemistry through subjects including crab, grains, omelets, meat roulades, and homemade sausages.

Alton Brown gathers more than 200 recipes from the later years of Good Eats, alongside photographs, drawings, and behind-the-scenes details. Topics ranging from pretzels to whole fish combine practical cooking advice with explanations of food science.

Alton Brown shares 101 recipes from his own everyday cooking, arranged by time of day from breakfast to late-night meals. Photographs accompany practical notes on ingredients, methods, and tools, with dishes spanning snacks, drinks, and full dinners.

Alton Brown revisits the cooking, science and culinary history of Good Eats with more than 150 recipes. Alongside updated dishes from the television series, the collection includes material prepared for an unaired season and explanations of the techniques behind each result.

Alton Brown reflects on food, filmmaking and the experiences behind his public career. Personal anecdotes, kitchen observations and culinary opinions explore the meals, mishaps and habits that have shaped his relationship with cooking and the people who do it.