{"id":3081,"date":"2014-03-19T22:21:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T03:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=3081"},"modified":"2014-03-19T22:21:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T03:21:46","slug":"alton-browns-edible-inevitable-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2014\/03\/alton-browns-edible-inevitable-tour.html","title":{"rendered":"Alton Brown’s Edible Inevitable Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yes, Timmy’s picking his nose. We tweeted this picture to @altonbrown.<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m almost embarrassed to talk about how I nearly missed this performance.<\/p>\n

I’m a huge Alton Brown fan. Since his show\u00a0Good Eats<\/em><\/a> debuted in 1999, he has brought food science and geekery to the masses. Before the days of TiVo and DVRs, I’d make a point to watch the show weekly. Now that I can record the shows, I catch episodes whenever I can.<\/p>\n

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We had a great time at the Alton Brown show in February.<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve cooked dozens of his classic recipes — most of which are successful<\/a>, although I’ve had some trouble with some of the recipes and techniques as well<\/a>. Our sons have grown to love the show over the years, as well.<\/p>\n

May I recommend the episodes from the first and second seasons, which cover the absolute basics: how to chop an onion, cook an egg, cook a steak in a cast iron skillet, cook pasta, bake a cake. He also covers useful (and useless) kitchen appliances and tools.<\/p>\n

So Alton Brown had been on tour for much of Fall 2013. I saw some Twitter traffic on his feed about someone being excited about AB coming to Denver in February.<\/p>\n

I started looking for tickets to the Denver show.<\/p>\n

Because I’m a moron.<\/p>\n

The day after the Denver show, AB was performing in Colorado Springs. Duh! I found this all out about a week beforehand.<\/p>\n

I zipped down to the Pikes Peak Center box office as soon as I could and got the family four tickets to the show. We were near the back of the theater, but we could still see pretty well thanks to the Jumbotron on the stage.<\/p>\n

Yes, the show started at 7:30pm and yes, the show was on a Tuesday…and school night**. But my sons love Good Eats<\/em> as much as I do and I knew they would learn something.<\/p>\n

I do wish I had more time to plan for this because members of the press could meet AB for an hour before the show. I inquired about this with my GeekMom.com credentials, but it was too late. The meet and greet was full. But I know now for next time.<\/p>\n

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I didn’t pick his nose. That seemed creepy.<\/p><\/div>\n

**During the show we had a text message that school had been canceled the following day due to cold weather. The temperature dipped below zero that night.<\/p>\n

You can’t take a lot of pictures…well, you aren’t supposed to take any pictures at all during the show…but I got a few. And the one I took during the show was done with express permission by AB.<\/p>\n

What’s cool about an Alton Brown live show is that he makes it clear that he can do things that Food Network wouldn’t allow. He played with fire, fire extinguishers, and he could speak freely about some rather controversial topics about healthy eating.<\/p>\n

The highlights of the show included:<\/p>\n