With his quirky and educational cooking show, Alton Brown captured the hearts of viewers. But was "Good Eats" really filmed ...

Part food science, part quirky skits, Good Eats created its own lane in an increasingly crowded highway of food shows, picking up a cult following, not to mention a Peabody Award, along the way.

Good Eats, written, produced and hosted by Alton Brown, originally premiered on Food Network in 1999 and ran for thirteen years.

Good Eats: The Return meets all the criteria of a modern reboot. But Alton Brown was wary of this while writing and shooting new episodes.