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Alton Brown, born on July 30, 1962, is a well-known television personality. He has a significant influence in the culinary world and is renowned for his unique sense of humor and culinary expertise. Brown has hosted several cooking shows, including 'Good Eats' and 'Alton Brown Live!', which have gained immense popularity among viewers.

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“Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.”

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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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“Laughing brains are more absorbent.”

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“Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.”

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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.”

Happens Happened Physics Kitchen Biology Chemistry Laboratory Artistry

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“I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.”

Learning Harder Delegates Doing Me Just Doing Me

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“Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice.”

Ifs Knows Done Play Kids Able Know How Dinner Soccer Disservice

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“A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that.”

Needs Shows Inspire Empowering Keep Moving Forward

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“I grill, therefore I am.”

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“The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.”

Problem Frustrating Junkie Procrastinator

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“Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.”

Sometimes Facts Habit Tradition Kitchen Culinary Charcoal

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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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“Do not allow watching food to replace making food.”

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“Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.”

People Enough Guy Cost Bills Nye

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“Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.”

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“I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.”

Knows Film Filmmaker Scorsese

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“I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.”

Ideas Brilliant Ideas Good Eats

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“I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.”

Mean Fun Sense Of Humor Poking Fun

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“I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.”

Firsts College Travel First Time Towns Small Town Semester

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“I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.”

Home Teacher Goofy

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“My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.”

Feelings Left Happened Committees Good Eats

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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.”

Should Writing Done Hate Communicate Heat Despise Recipes Bedtime

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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.”

Evil Mass Bird Cooking Add Cooks

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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.”

World One Thing Products Ice Fascinating Our World Take Me

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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.”

Believe Hard Painter Chocolate Hard To Believe Chocolate Mousse Toulouse

Book:I'm Just Here for More Food: Food x Mixing + Heat = Baking

Source: I'm Just Here for More Food: Food x Mixing + Heat = Baking

“I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.”

People Mean I Can Problem Causes Sound Battle Wit Dirty Dishes Attempting Naughty Mean People Battle Of Wits

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“That's the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that turkey meat, in its cooked state, is dry and flavorless. Does it have to be that way? No. We just have to focus on what the turkey is and what the turkey needs.”

Way Needs Doe States Facts Goal Focus Skins Ultimate Meat Dry Recipes Turkeys Ultimate Goal

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“I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on one side. It's a nice barrier against super high heat which tends to make a lot of fish to turn really flaky. It's very easy to overcook fish on the grill. But I still brush it with oil before I start.”

Giving Stills Real Turns Easy Sides Nice Skins Fishes Protection Oil Heat Barriers Brushes

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“I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the same issue from different angles, from different points of view, from different presentation styles, that really makes things sink in and become embedded.”

Thinking Different Ends Views Issues Style Cooking Point Of View Angle Presentation Embedded Different Points Of View Different Angles

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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.”

Ifs Thinking Knows I Can Games Names Degrees Absolutes Mere Fats Meat Percentages Temperature Burgers Connoisseur Cheeseburger

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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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“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.”

Knows Years Made Lasts Figures Cold Needed Heat Last Year Basements Refrigerators Cold Heart

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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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“So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do.”

Years Two Jobs Industry Needed England Quitting Restaurants Two Years Culinary Institute I Quit New England

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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.”

Kind School Film Doors Band Video Georgia Athens

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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.”

Want Doe Lasts Various Flames Chemicals Nasty Deposits Licking

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“Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.”

Ifs Process Food Cooking Focused Observation Culinary Chef Recipes

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“I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.”

People Want Play Games Sympathy Better Now

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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.”

Ifs Facts School Jobs Mother Daughter Decided Filmmaker Culinary My Daughter Ingredients Lunch Qualifying Culinary School

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“Your patience will be rewarded.”

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“A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.”

Littles Bigs Water Structure Add Collections Sugar Bubbles Protein Foam

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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.”

Home Too Much Flying Cooks Planes Rely Culinary Instruction Pilots Recipes Manuals

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“Believe me, a grain is a terrible thing to waste.”

Believe Terrible Waste Grain Believe In Me Terrible Things

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“Racism. It's ugly. Even in tubers.”

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“So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.”

Hands Source Honey Efficient Bees Sophisticated

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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”

Ifs Years Real Reason Speak Behinds College Degrees Theater Cameras College Degree Milieu

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“Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it”

Real Enough Happens Concepts Excited Get Real

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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”

Thinking Shows Happens Jobs Educational Things Happen Hated Plus Worthwhile Entertaining Why Things Happen

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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”

Long Happens Found Knowing Long Time Backgrounds

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“I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Kind Grief Talking Fake Being Real Sommelier

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About the Author

Born: July 30, 1962
Known for: Television Personality
Quotes: 121

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