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Good service can save a bad meal, but there is no level of food that can save bad service.

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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 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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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 love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.
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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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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 became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.
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I hate using the word coagulant.
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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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What tends to happen is that people will go - they've got hot broth, you know, they've added some liquid to their drippings, they've brought that up to heat. And then they try to add in a big clump of just kind of a handful of flour, and of course, it turns into library paste.
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I grill, therefore I am.
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Laminated Lettuce ... perfect for holiday gift giving.
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I'm prickly. I fuss over every single detail.
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I've learned that you shouldn't have preconceived notions about anybody.
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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 feel a strong wakeup call and need to build social connections.
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I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.
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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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I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about
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I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.
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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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