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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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“I do know I'm a control freak.”

Knows Freak Control Freak

Author:Alton Brown

“What tends to happen is that people will go - they've got hot broth, you know, they've added some liquid to their drippings, they've brought that up to heat. And then they try to add in a big clump of just kind of a handful of flour, and of course, it turns into library paste.”

People Knows Trying Kind Bigs Happens Turns Courses Hot Add Library Heat Handful Liquid Dripping Flour

Author:Alton Brown

“You know, [skin] happens at the gravy boat stage - right? - or this happens when you're trying to keep it warm. So the way that I avoid this is I keep my gravy - the second it's done, I put it in a thermos, which will keep it hot and will prevent air from getting to the surface. And I keep it there till the last moment. The last thing that goes out to the table is the gravy, and I pour it out of the thermos and immediately move it in.”

Knows Way Trying Done Moments Happens Lasts Moving Air Stage Skins Hot Tables Warm Surface Boat Gravy Thermos

Author:Alton Brown

“Butter typically melts around, you know, 90 Fahrenheit, as opposed to about 20 degrees higher for lard. So what that means is that when you're working with it, the lard is going to stay more solid, which is great for flakiness.”

Knows Mean Higher Degrees Lard

Author:Alton Brown

“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

Author:Alton Brown

“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!”

People Knows May Jobs Too Much Eating Medicine Diets Being The Best Balanced Balanced Diet Good Eats

Author:Alton Brown

“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

Author:Alton Brown

“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

Author:Alton Brown

“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

Author:Alton Brown

“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

Author:Alton Brown

“You know we fixate on the food so much itself: “Oh, the ultimate brownie or the ultimate this or that” -- well, let me tell you something: It’s all poop in about 12 hours, okay? The real power that food has is its ability to connect human beings to each other -- that’s the stuff right there and, to me, everything else is secondary to that.”

Knows Humans Wells Real Stuff Hours Human Beings Ability Okay Ultimate Let Me Real Power Poop Brownies

Author:Alton Brown

“In the end, all journeys are spiritual. So go off the main road. Be givers of hospitality and gracious takers of it too. Accept the serendipitous moments of life because, when all is said and done, you may find out that they were not serendipitous at all. And know that faith is as real as bread broken among friends. What you believe will take you far on your journey. If you search carefully, you will find good food all along the way.”

Ifs Knows Way Believe May Said Real Ends Done Moments Spiritual Accepting Journey Broken Bread Hospitality Giver Gracious Good Food Said And Done Moments Of Life

Author:Alton Brown

“I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles around me. The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do.”

People Knows Feels Trying Home Tables Circles Cooks Impress Crackers Tuna

Author:Alton Brown

“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.”

People Knows Way Giving Kind Use Teach Know How Educate Mantras Subversive

Author:Alton Brown

“Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I'm really feeling intimidated, I'll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello or a Burgundy, and I'll pick a year that's missing and ask for that one.”

Knows Years Wells Feelings Asks Missing Type Picks Wine Lists Restaurants Intimidated Burgundy Chianti

Author:Alton Brown

“You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.”

Knows Dog Hot Dear Peasants Hamburgers Hot Dog

Author:Alton Brown

About the Author

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

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