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When you're touring, you're constantly in motion.

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Alton Brown
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: July 30
Actor
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Alton Crawford Walter Brown
Alton Crawford Brown
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I played every bad guy in Shakespeare.
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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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You need to either create a slurry in a cold liquid, which also works with cornstarch, or you've got to do your gravy in a very wide pan and kind of scatter the flour over the top and then very quickly whisk it in.
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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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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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Cranberries contain a massive amount of natural pectins. They will gel all on their own, which is why you can basically make cranberry sauce out of filling.
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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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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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Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how - you know there is no such thing as 'cold.' There is only less heat.
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I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good Eats' isn't about food, it's about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better.
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I grill, therefore I am.
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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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My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.
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Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.
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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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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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I'm too tired to hate.
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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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I'm just sitting around thinking about turkey.
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