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I can’t talk about anything or write about anything if I don’t understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

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Alton Brown
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: July 30
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A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying.
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Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes.
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I never spoke about politics, with the exception of Election Night.
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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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Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.
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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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Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'
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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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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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If you're good with a knife, you don't need your eyes.
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Remember, America: organization will set you free.
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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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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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I'm grateful my teenaged daughter is healthy and well and for the work I do to make a living.
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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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I'm just sitting around thinking about turkey.
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I want to bring things up to room temperature, especially poultry, before I cook it because I want it to cook faster so that there's less moisture loss.
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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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I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.
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'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows.
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