I just found this, via Wikipedia, but MacWorld interviewed Alton Brown back in 2001.  If you are unfamiliar with Alton Brown, he\’s one of the best Food Network stars, and probably best for his \”Food Hacking\”.  
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.
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