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Remember, America: organization will set you free.

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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 spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.
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Believe me, a grain is a terrible thing to waste.
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I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.
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I do like artfully breaking rules.
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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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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 stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it.
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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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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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The jewel of the lard is right around the kidneys. But this is a fat that has a very specific crystalline formation and a high melting point.
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If you're good with a knife, you don't need your eyes.
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I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.
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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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Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.
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I keep the ThunderCats thermos safely in the kitchen.
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My advice: write down everything you eat. It's amazing what that self honesty can do for you. (Do you really want to have to confess that doughnut? I thought not.)
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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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Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.
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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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I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It's a simple as that.
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