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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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Alton Crawford Walter Brown
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I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through my efforts to attract the opposite sex, I found that not only did cooking work, but that it was actually fun.
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Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
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I am firmly in the lard camp. It must be what we call leaf lard, which is a specific kind of lard that resides around certain internal organs in the pig.
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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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My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.
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Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it
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Remember, America: organization will set you free.
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Do not allow watching food to replace making food.
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I'm loyal and very good about giving people opportunities.
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If I took my turkey out of the refrigerator and, like, threw it in a dumpster or drug it down the street in New York for a while [it will make people sick].
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I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.
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I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.
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Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured.
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Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I'm really feeling intimidated, I'll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello or a Burgundy, and I'll pick a year that's missing and ask for that one.
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I grill, therefore I am.
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The way to any woman's heart, be she witch or Wonderwoman, princess or Pocahontas, is through her stomach.
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I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.
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Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.
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