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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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Alton Brown
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: July 30
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I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good Eats' isn't about food, it's about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better.
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A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying.
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I hate using the word coagulant.
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I am publicly apolitical.
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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 had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.
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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 feel a strong wakeup call and need to build social connections.
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If you're good with a knife, you don't need your eyes.
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The turkey - my number one thing that people don't get is take that sucker out of the refrigerator about three hours before you plan on cooking it.
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Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.
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Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
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You know we fixate on the food so much itself: “Oh, the ultimate brownie or the ultimate this or that” -- well, let me tell you something: It’s all poop in about 12 hours, okay? The real power that food has is its ability to connect human beings to each other -- that’s the stuff right there and, to me, everything else is secondary to that.
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I keep the ThunderCats thermos safely in the kitchen.
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Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.
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Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.
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I'm loyal and very good about giving people opportunities.
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Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes.
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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've learned that you shouldn't have preconceived notions about anybody.
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