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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
Actor
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Alton Crawford Walter Brown
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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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What happens is that in each clump you've got the gelatinization of starches, which happens very quickly at the surface of the clump and it kind of forms a protective skin around this dry hunk of flour.
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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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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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I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.
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I want to bring things up to room temperature, especially poultry, before I cook it because I want it to cook faster so that there's less moisture loss.
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The only unitasker allowed in my kitchen is a fire extinguisher.
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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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You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.
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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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So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do.
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My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera
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The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.
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All that [replacing of fat] does is lead to dissatisfaction and I think that dissatisfaction results in overeating.
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I keep the ThunderCats thermos safely in the kitchen.
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I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.
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Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.
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The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.
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When you're touring, you're constantly in motion.
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If my wife made childhood obesity her mission and I signed a law making 1/8 cup of tomato paste a vegetable, I'd be sleeping on the sofa.
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