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I do know I'm a control freak.

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Alton Brown
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: July 30
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Alton Crawford Walter Brown
Alton Crawford Brown
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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 became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.
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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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Butter typically melts around, you know, 90 Fahrenheit, as opposed to about 20 degrees higher for lard. So what that means is that when you're working with it, the lard is going to stay more solid, which is great for flakiness.
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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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There are no bad foods, only bad food habits.
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I grill, therefore I am.
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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 feel a strong wakeup call and need to build social connections.
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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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I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.
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When you're touring, you're constantly in motion.
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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 think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good Eats' isn't about food, it's about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better.
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Your patience will be rewarded.
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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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My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.
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