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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
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I'm just sitting around thinking about turkey.
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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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Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes.
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Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.
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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'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.
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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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A balanced diet may be the best medicine. I was eating too much good eats. But people consider that part of your job, you know? Eat. And I do!
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Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I'm really feeling intimidated, I'll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello or a Burgundy, and I'll pick a year that's missing and ask for that one.
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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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All that [replacing of fat] does is lead to dissatisfaction and I think that dissatisfaction results in overeating.
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If you're good with a knife, you don't need your eyes.
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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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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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Believe me, a grain is a terrible thing to waste.
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I'm too tired to hate.
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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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There are no bad foods, only bad food habits.
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I hate using the word coagulant.
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I'm not a slave driver or a yeller. I was yelled at in kitchens and other workplaces.
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