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I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.

Alton Brown

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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 am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.
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The only unitasker allowed in my kitchen is a fire extinguisher.
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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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My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera
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Lumps are caused by one thing and one thing alone - the improper addition of a starch.
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A pie dough comes together exactly like a biscuit only there is very, very little liquid and no leavening involved. Other than that, the same rules apply. My best advice: handle the dough as little as possible.
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Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.
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I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game.
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I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.
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Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.
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Now my wife may think she's locked me out of the kitchen but MacGyver's not my patron saint for nothing.
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So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do.
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Believe me, a grain is a terrible thing to waste.
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A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.
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I do like artfully breaking rules.
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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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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
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I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.
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So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.
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I do know I'm a control freak.
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