Yeast.
The preshow consists of sock puppets of belching yeast.
[But tender and flaky are another show …] [1]
And farts. Sock puppets of belching and farting yeast.
In time to the Alfred Hitchcock Theme [2].
Of course it can only mean one thing—Bunny and I had tickets to the Alton Brown Edible Inevitable Tour [3]!
Alton was nice enough to take our picture and post it to Twitter [4].
[Can you see me now?] [5]
My god—what a show!
Alton Brown [6] is extremely funny. After an attempt at rapping (he should not quit his day job, that's all I have to say about that), he went into “Things He Could Not Say On Televsion” which include rants against chicken fingers (“when I am depressed, or sad, or even bored, I just have to remember the sound of little girls screaming … ”) to trout ice cream [7].
He makes a gallon of chocolate ice cream in 10 seconds (and it does not involve liquid nitrogen) and using the worlds largest Easy•Bake Oven [8] (cranked to 11, it can be seen from outer space) he cooks pizza in four minutes.
And I best not forget his country song to Airline Lounge Shimp Cocktail. Rapping aside, he's not that bad of a singer and I've certainly heard worse.
All I can say is, if you are a fan of Good Eats [9] or of Alton Brown in general, you should go [10]. It's easily worth the ticket price.
And yes, he always carries nutmeg in his pocket.
[1] /boston/2015/02/06/yeast.jpg
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x6_6UchfJo
[3] http://www.altonbrowntour.com/
[4] https://twitter.com/altonbrown/status/563867975640309760
[5] /boston/2015/02/06/AltonBrownLive.png
[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w51Hh34vep0&t=20m13s
[8] http://www.hasbro.com/easy-bake/en_US/
[9] http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/
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