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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.

Alton Brown

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Alton Brown
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: July 30
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I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the same issue from different angles, from different points of view, from different presentation styles, that really makes things sink in and become embedded.
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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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Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
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I'm just sitting around thinking about turkey.
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I don't like to be polarizing. It's not who I am.
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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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