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I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.

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Alton Brown
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: July 30
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I never spoke about politics, with the exception of Election Night.
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Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.
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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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All that [replacing of fat] does is lead to dissatisfaction and I think that dissatisfaction results in overeating.
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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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I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.
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Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'
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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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I'm too tired to hate.
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I am publicly apolitical.
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The only unitasker allowed in my kitchen is a fire extinguisher.
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That's the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that turkey meat, in its cooked state, is dry and flavorless. Does it have to be that way? No. We just have to focus on what the turkey is and what the turkey needs.
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The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.
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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 feel like being on Broadway will convince my mother that my theater degree was worth it.
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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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