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I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.

Alton Brown

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Alton Brown
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: July 30
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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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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 kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile
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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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What happens is that in each clump you've got the gelatinization of starches, which happens very quickly at the surface of the clump and it kind of forms a protective skin around this dry hunk of flour.
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Do not allow watching food to replace making food.
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I feel like being on Broadway will convince my mother that my theater degree was worth it.
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Butter typically melts around, you know, 90 Fahrenheit, as opposed to about 20 degrees higher for lard. So what that means is that when you're working with it, the lard is going to stay more solid, which is great for flakiness.
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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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Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.
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I grill, therefore I am.
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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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We are fat and sick and dying because we have handed a basic, fundamental and intimate function of life over to corporations. We choose to value our nourishment so little that we entrust it to strangers. This is insanity. Feed yourselves. Feed your loved ones. And for God's sake feed your children.
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Lumps are caused by one thing and one thing alone - the improper addition of a starch.
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The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.
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