I just watched the last few minutes of the White House Iron Chef encore presentation tonight and noticed that Alton Brown looked, well…sick. For a moment I wondered if it was my lack of HDTV or the lighting on the set, but the others on the show, like Bobby Flay, Mario Batali and Emeril Lagasse, all seemed to look like they usually do. I did a quick search for “Alton Brown Sick” and noticed that other were wondering the same thing.

Apparently back in October of last year, Brown, the host of the Food Network’s “Good Eats,” was featured [...]