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I played every bad guy in Shakespeare.

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Alton Brown
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: July 30
Actor
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Chef
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Alton Crawford Walter Brown
Alton Crawford Brown
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I can’t talk about anything or write about anything if I don’t understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.
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The skin is forming because of proteins, just like if you cook milk or anything else that's got a coagulant protein in it.
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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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The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.
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I do like artfully breaking rules.
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Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.
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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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I'm too tired to hate.
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I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through my efforts to attract the opposite sex, I found that not only did cooking work, but that it was actually fun.
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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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When you're touring, you're constantly in motion.
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The turkey - my number one thing that people don't get is take that sucker out of the refrigerator about three hours before you plan on cooking it.
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I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile
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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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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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If you really love stuffing, wait until the turkey comes out of the oven, add some of the pan drippings to the stuffing, and bake it in a dish. That's called dressing, and that's not evil - stuffing is, though.
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Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.
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Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
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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 feel like being on Broadway will convince my mother that my theater degree was worth it.
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