Ask Alton Brown How Food+Heat=Cooking

This week's Slashdot interview guest is Alton Brown, host of the popular cable TV show Good Eats. This is a "reader request" interview in the wake of the surprisingly popular Slashdot review of Alton's book, I'm Just Here for the Food. Please post your questions below. we'll send 10 of the highest-moderated to Alton, and post his answers when we get them back.

Comments

Re:Vegetarians

[Matey-O]

I think Vegetarian food has lost the 'stigma' it once had. It's gotten to the point now where I'll frequently have a meal without meat and not think anything about it. (Certainly not "Hey! Look at that! I just ate something without MEAT in it!")

As far as doing it for your own political desires, have at it. I find it curious that much of the vegetarian food industry is devoted to foodstuff that looks and tastes like meat. There's a biological desire there to use meat as a source of protein. And really on a buch of levels, nothing beats a good Ribeye. (blah blah blah, 6 lbs of grain and 88 million gallons of water to make that ribeye, blah blah blah)

That's not to say I don't also love a good vegetable curry now and then.