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“My own personal experience has become more first-hand.”

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Steve Erickson is an American novelist born on April 20, 1950. His works are known for their unique narrative style and profound insights into American society and culture. more

“To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake, and if anything I've always steered a bit clear of that kind of thing, because it seems gimmicky to play around with text rather than do the work of telling a story and creating characters.”

Ifs Kind Play Character Stories Seems Bits Fiction Clear Creating Sake Experiments Not Interested Creating Characters

Author:Steve Erickson

“I'm just sitting around thinking about turkey.”

Thinking Sitting Turkeys Sitting Around

Author:Alton Brown

“The turkey - my number one thing that people don't get is take that sucker out of the refrigerator about three hours before you plan on cooking it.”

People Three Hours Numbers Plans One Thing Cooking Turkeys Sucker Refrigerators

Author:Alton Brown

“I want to bring things up to room temperature, especially poultry, before I cook it because I want it to cook faster so that there's less moisture loss.”

Want Loss Rooms Faster Cooks Temperature Moisture Poultry

Author:Alton Brown

“There have been times I thought that when I got a certain point in the story, a certain character was going to do a certain thing, only to get to that point and have the character make clear that he or she doesn't want to do that at all. That long phone conversation I thought the character was going to have? He hangs up the phone before the other person answers, and twenty pages of dialog I had half written in my head go out the window.”

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Author:Steve Erickson

“If I took my turkey out of the refrigerator and, like, threw it in a dumpster or drug it down the street in New York for a while [it will make people sick].”

People Ifs Streets New York Drug Sick Turkeys Refrigerators Dumpsters

Author:Alton Brown

“I would have bacteria and, yeah, it would grow in what we call the danger zone, which is typically between 40 and 140. But if I'm getting something out of my refrigerator where it's been basically pretty clean and I'm putting it on my counter, what exactly is going to happen in that amount of time that going into a hot oven isn't going to kill? Nothing.”

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Author:Alton Brown

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