‘I’m not normal’ – the quirky genius that is Alton Brown
NEW YORK — Alton Brown thinks about food differently than you do. You don’t get obsessive with hummus. He does. You don’t research the long, weird history of nutmeg or put sumac in everything. He does.
You never considered having spaghetti in the morning. He did — and made it delicious. “Why aren’t we having pasta for breakfast? I don’t understand why we don’t do this?” the TV chef and writer asked recently.