- Occasionally annoyed professors at the New England Culinary Institute by constantly asking what ingredients did in recipes. This is the same information Good Eats (1999) is famous for offering its viewers. The NECI now gets applications on which prospective students say they want to learn "to cook like Alton Brown".
- When he decided to have his own cooking show, he attended the New England Culinary Institute, graduating in 1995. Although he claims to have been a poor science student in high school and college, it was during this culinary training that he began to began to understand science because he felt the need to understand the underlying processes of cooking.
- Father, with Deanna Brown, of daughter, Zoey Brown, born in 1999. Zoey has appeared on numerous episodes of Good Eats (1999).
- Motorcyle enthusiast
- His dog, Matilda, a basset mix, has appeared on Good Eats (1999) playing herself. Specifically, in the episode Casserole Over (2003).
- Is a fan of Apple computers.
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