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Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.

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Alton Brown
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: July 30
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The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.
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All that [replacing of fat] does is lead to dissatisfaction and I think that dissatisfaction results in overeating.
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A balanced diet may be the best medicine. I was eating too much good eats. But people consider that part of your job, you know? Eat. And I do!
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Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.
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My mantra was to educate people - to actually give them the know-how they could use - and to do it in a very subversive kind of way. I would entertain them, and I was going to teach them whether they knew it or not.
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I do like artfully breaking rules.
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You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.
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The jewel of the lard is right around the kidneys. But this is a fat that has a very specific crystalline formation and a high melting point.
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Remember, America: organization will set you free.
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I am publicly apolitical.
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My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes.
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What tends to happen is that people will go - they've got hot broth, you know, they've added some liquid to their drippings, they've brought that up to heat. And then they try to add in a big clump of just kind of a handful of flour, and of course, it turns into library paste.
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Racism. It's ugly. Even in tubers.
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Laughing brains are more absorbent.
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I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about
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I feel a strong wakeup call and need to build social connections.
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If there's something I feel certain of, it is that we're not very aware of each other and that's largely because of social media.
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I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.
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Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.
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Lumps are caused by one thing and one thing alone - the improper addition of a starch.
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