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I grill, therefore I am.

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Alton Brown
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: July 30
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Alton Crawford Walter Brown
Alton Crawford Brown
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I want to bring things up to room temperature, especially poultry, before I cook it because I want it to cook faster so that there's less moisture loss.
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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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Racism. It's ugly. Even in tubers.
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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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I'm prickly. I fuss over every single detail.
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I've learned that you shouldn't have preconceived notions about anybody.
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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 do know I'm a control freak.
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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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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 think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the same issue from different angles, from different points of view, from different presentation styles, that really makes things sink in and become embedded.
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Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.
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I'm loyal and very good about giving people opportunities.
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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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My advice: write down everything you eat. It's amazing what that self honesty can do for you. (Do you really want to have to confess that doughnut? I thought not.)
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I never rated my cuddle factor, but I expect it's pretty low.
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Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.
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Remember, America: organization will set you free.
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I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.
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I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It's a simple as that.
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