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The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with. (Alton Brown)
I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways. View quote
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Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously. View quote
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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. View quote
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My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee. View quote
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Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it. View quote
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I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe. View quote
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Good service can save a bad meal, but there is no level of food that can save bad service. (Alton Brown)
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. View quote
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The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it. View quote
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Your patience will be rewarded. View quote
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I grill, therefore I am. View quote
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Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be. View quote
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Alton Brown)
I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It's a simple as that. View quote
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My mantra was to educate people - to actually give them the know-how they could use - and to do it in a very subversive kind of way. I would entertain them, and I was going to teach them whether they knew it or not. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game. View quote
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