I just found this, via Wikipedia, but MacWorld interviewed Alton Brown back in 2001. Â If you are unfamiliar with Alton Brown, he’s one of the best Food Network stars, and probably best for his “Food Hacking”. Â
Q&A with Alton Brown  by Chris Rywalt, Macworld.com
Alton Brown took a backward approach to finding fame as the host of a TV cooking show — he spent ten years as a cameraman and TV-commercial director before going to cooking school. “I watched a lot of television shows about food and decided that I thought they were all rotten,” Brown says. “I went to culinary school specifically to get the background to make the show that I make.” The result? Good Eats, the Food Network program Brown hosts and writes–with the help of his 366MHz iBook SE.