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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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I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.
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So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do.
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Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
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I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.
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If you really love stuffing, wait until the turkey comes out of the oven, add some of the pan drippings to the stuffing, and bake it in a dish. That's called dressing, and that's not evil - stuffing is, though.
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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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