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Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.
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Alton Brown
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: July 30
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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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The skin is forming because of proteins, just like if you cook milk or anything else that's got a coagulant protein in it.
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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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Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.
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You need to either create a slurry in a cold liquid, which also works with cornstarch, or you've got to do your gravy in a very wide pan and kind of scatter the flour over the top and then very quickly whisk it in.
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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 grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on one side. It's a nice barrier against super high heat which tends to make a lot of fish to turn really flaky. It's very easy to overcook fish on the grill. But I still brush it with oil before I start.
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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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I played every bad guy in Shakespeare.
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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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I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through my efforts to attract the opposite sex, I found that not only did cooking work, but that it was actually fun.
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I grill, therefore I am.
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Laminated Lettuce ... perfect for holiday gift giving.
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I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.
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I've learned that you shouldn't have preconceived notions about anybody.
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