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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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Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.
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I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.
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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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Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.
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Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
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Wine is like women. It tempts you it comforts you it confuses you and can even turn on you when you least expect it. It can be your friend one day and your enemy the next.
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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 never rated my cuddle factor, but I expect it's pretty low.
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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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I feel a strong wakeup call and need to build social connections.
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
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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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Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice.
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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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Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how - you know there is no such thing as 'cold.' There is only less heat.
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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 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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My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes.
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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 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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