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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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Alton Brown
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: July 30
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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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My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes.
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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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Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.
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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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'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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I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him
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I keep the ThunderCats thermos safely in the kitchen.
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Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
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I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table.
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The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.
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I never rated my cuddle factor, but I expect it's pretty low.
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If you're good with a knife, you don't need your eyes.
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Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.
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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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