Question: How many seasons did the science based cooking show hosted by Alton Brown air? 

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David Rocco's Amalfi Getaway
Shirley Corriher
Dotch Cooking Show
Alton Brown
I Love to Eat
Good Eats
Pro at Cooking
List of Good Eats episodes
Cutthroat Kitchen

"Cutthroat Kitchen" is a reality cooking television show hosted by Alton Brown.
 It premiered on August 11, 2013 on Food Network, and features four chefs competing in a three-round elimination cooking competition.
 The contestants face auctions in which they can purchase opportunities to sabotage one another.
 Each chef is given $25,000 at the start of the show; the person left standing keeps whatever money he/she has not spent in the auctions.
 The show is in its fourteenth season as of August 2016.
David Rocco's Amalfi Getaway is a cooking and lifestyle cooking show hosted by David Rocco which premiered March 11, 2012 on Cooking Channel in the USA and produced by Rockhead Entertainment and Breakthrough Entertainment.
Shirley O. Corriher (born 1935) is a biochemist and author of "CookWise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Cooking", winner of a James Beard Foundation award, and "BakeWise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Baking."
 "CookWise" shows how scientific insights can be applied to traditional cooking, while "BakeWise" applies the same idea to baking.
 Some compare Corriher's approach to that of Harold McGee (who Corriher thanks as her "intellectual hero" in the "My Gratitude and Thanks" section of "Cookwise") and Alton Brown.
 She has made a number of appearances as a food consultant on Alton Brown's show "Good Eats" and has released a DVD, "Shirley O. Corriher's Kitchen Secrets Revealed".
The Dotch Cooking Show (Japanese: どっちの料理ショー , Hepburn: Dotchi no Ryōri Shō ) (April 17, 1997 – March 17, 2005) was a Japanese cooking show produced by the Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation and known for its use of the highest quality and most expensive food ingredients available from both domestic and international sources.
 In the show two chefs prepare two competing dishes, each using a special premium ingredient, but the dish that is ultimately served at the end of the show is determined by majority vote of the panelists, and then served only to those who voted for that dish.
 The show is continued by the New Dotch Cooking Show (新どっちの料理ショー , Shin Dotchi no Ryōri Shō ) from April 14, 2005.
Alton Crawford Brown (born July 30, 1962) is an American television personality, food show presenter, author, actor, cinematographer, and musician.
 He is the creator and host of the Food Network television show "Good Eats" (14 seasons), host of the mini-series "Feasting on Asphalt" and "Feasting on Waves", and host and main commentator on "Iron Chef America", "Cutthroat Kitchen" and Camp Cutthroat.
 Brown is a best-selling author of several books on food and cooking.
 On Alton's 2016 book tour, he stated "Good Eats" will have a "sequel", and it will be released in 2017 on the internet.
 He is the songwriter and lead performer for his CD "Bitter Like Me."
I Love to Eat was a live television series on NBC which aired from 30 August 1946 to May 18, 1947, and was a cooking show hosted by chef and cookbook author James Beard.
 The show is notable for having been the first television network cooking show.
Good Eats is a television cooking show, created and hosted by Alton Brown, which aired in North America on Food Network and later Cooking Channel.
 Likened to television science educators Mr. Wizard and Bill Nye, Brown explores the science and technique behind the cooking, the history of different foods, and the advantages of different kinds of cooking equipment.
 The show tends to focus on familiar dishes that can easily be made at home, and also features segments on choosing the right appliances, and getting the most out of inexpensive, multi-purpose tools.
 Each episode of "Good Eats" has a distinct theme, which is typically an ingredient or a certain cooking technique, but may also be a more general theme such as Thanksgiving.
 In the tenth anniversary episode, Brown stated that the show was inspired by the idea of combining Julia Child, Mr. Wizard, and Monty Python.
 On May 11, 2011, Brown announced that the series would come to a close, ending production at episode 249.
 Good Eats is the third longest running Food Network series, behind "30 Minute Meals" and "Barefoot Contessa".
 A "sequel" to Good Eats will be released in 2017, by Alton Brown, on the internet.
Pro at Cooking was an Internet-distributed educational series about cooking made by Dave and Davin Productions.
 The series (a spin-off to Pure Pwnage) was a comedic cooking show hosted by Dave Lee, also known by his Chinese name Dawei.
 Each episode featured a female assistant, who tended to be a victim of chauvinism.
 The series was filmed in Toronto.
"Good Eats" is an informational cooking show in which Alton Brown would go into the history and or science of a particular dish or item that was the focal point of each episode.
 The show aired 245 episodes of 14 seasons with eight specials and five shorts which aired on the Food Network website.
Cutthroat Kitchen is a cooking show hosted by Alton Brown that premiered on the Food Network on August 11, 2013.
 It features four chefs competing in a three-round elimination cooking competition.
 The contestants face auctions in which they can purchase opportunities to sabotage one another.
 Each chef is given $25,000 at the start of the show; the person left standing keeps whatever money he/she has not spent in the auctions.
 The show is in its fifteenth season as of November 2016.
 The series shares some basic elements with other four-chef, three-round elimination-style competitions on Food Network including "Chopped" and "Guy's Grocery Games".
 Numerous "Cutthroat Kitchen" contestants have competed on these shows.