Originally filed Wednesday, October 3, 2018 by RODNEY HO/rho@ajc.com on his AJC Radio & TV Talk blog
Sorry, I'm late on this one but I just saw this bit of news: Atlanta food guru Alton Brown married local restaurant designer Elizabeth Ingram over the weekend on a boat off the coast of Charleston, S.C.
According to Atlanta Eater, Brown hired Ingram to design his new Marietta loft space and they were engaged in April.
Ingram has designed an array of restaurants in town including Beetlecat, Marcel, Superica El Tigre and Golden Eagle, according to a feature in Architectural Digest last month.
The once very private 56-year-old Marietta resident divorced his previous wife DeAnna in 2015. They have a daughter Zoey, who is 18.
In a surprisingly frank 2016 interview with the New York Times, he talked about how he had to leave the Johnson Ferry Baptist Church they attended after the leaders tried to talk him out of leaving the marriage.
After the divorce, he said he drank too much, ate too many sweets and gained 20 pounds. Then he went in reverse, lost the weight and worked out, admittedly to excess.
The Architectural Digest profile has Brown waxing poetic about his courtship with Ingram as they worked on his loft space.
"At some point, meetings turned into dates," he told the magazine. "I'm not going to lie—and I can't put my finger on when it was—I started looking forward to seeing her more than the space."
Brown, who recently saw "Cutthroat Kitchen" cancelled on Food Network after 190 episodes, last year announced a "Good Eats" revival called "Return of the Eats" but no official launch date has been set.
He has also taped some remixed versions of original “Good Eats” episodes which will begin airing on the Cooking Channel next month.