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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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Alton Crawford Walter Brown
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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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I hate using the word coagulant.
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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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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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I'm not a slave driver or a yeller. I was yelled at in kitchens and other workplaces.
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I'm loyal and very good about giving people opportunities.
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Your patience will be rewarded.
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My mantra was to educate people - to actually give them the know-how they could use - and to do it in a very subversive kind of way. I would entertain them, and I was going to teach them whether they knew it or not.
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Basting is evil. Basting does nothing for the meat. Why? Skin. Skin is designed to keep stuff out of the bird, so basting just lets heat out of the oven. That means the turkey will take longer to cook... so don't touch that door!
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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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I'm prickly. I fuss over every single detail.
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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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If you're good with a knife, you don't need your eyes.
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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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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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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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When you're touring, you're constantly in motion.
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Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.
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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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Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.
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