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I never spoke about politics, with the exception of Election Night.

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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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So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.
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Cranberries contain a massive amount of natural pectins. They will gel all on their own, which is why you can basically make cranberry sauce out of filling.
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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 played every bad guy in Shakespeare.
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The only unitasker allowed in my kitchen is a fire extinguisher.
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I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.
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I keep the ThunderCats thermos safely in the kitchen.
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I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.
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Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about 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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I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles around me. The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do.
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I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.
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I am publicly apolitical.
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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 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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If I took my turkey out of the refrigerator and, like, threw it in a dumpster or drug it down the street in New York for a while [it will make people sick].
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I'm loyal and very good about giving people opportunities.
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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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There are no bad foods, only bad food habits.
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Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured.
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