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I played every bad guy in Shakespeare.

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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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I'm just sitting around thinking about turkey.
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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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Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
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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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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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I do like artfully breaking rules.
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Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.
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I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.
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I never rated my cuddle factor, but I expect it's pretty low.
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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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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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If there's something I feel certain of, it is that we're not very aware of each other and that's largely because of social media.
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Wine is like women. It tempts you it comforts you it confuses you and can even turn on you when you least expect it. It can be your friend one day and your enemy the next.
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Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice.
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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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I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.
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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 hate using the word coagulant.
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I don't like to be polarizing. It's not who I am.
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