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I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him

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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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The way to any woman's heart, be she witch or Wonderwoman, princess or Pocahontas, is through her stomach.
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A pie dough comes together exactly like a biscuit only there is very, very little liquid and no leavening involved. Other than that, the same rules apply. My best advice: handle the dough as little as possible.
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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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I hate using the word coagulant.
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I'm prickly. I fuss over every single detail.
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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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I do know I'm a control freak.
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I'm grateful my teenaged daughter is healthy and well and for the work I do to make a living.
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Lumps are caused by one thing and one thing alone - the improper addition of a starch.
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I'm loyal and very good about giving people opportunities.
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Cranberries contain a massive amount of natural pectins. They will gel all on their own, which is why you can basically make cranberry sauce out of filling.
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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 an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game.
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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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I played every bad guy in Shakespeare.
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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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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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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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My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.
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