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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.

~Alton Brown

Topics: Actually Artistry Biology Chemistry Everything Food Happened Happens History Kitchen Laboratory Physics Science Yes

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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.

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Topics: Always Based Charcoal Come Culinary Fact Fueled Habits History Kitchens Out Sometimes Time Tradition Were

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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.

~Alton Brown

Topics: Around Canned Circles Cook Could Crackers Feel Generally Home Impress Know Less Me More People Serve Some Some People Table Than Try Tuna Who You

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I grill, therefore I am.

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Topics: Am Grill Therefore I Am

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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.

~Alton Brown

Topics: Absolute Actually Burger Connoisseur Content Cooked Degree Detect Even Fat Game Ground Know Like Meat Mere Name Really Shift Temperature Think Which You I Can

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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!

~Alton Brown

Topics: Balanced Balanced Diet Best Consider Diet Eat Eating Eats Good Job Know May Medicine Much Part People Too Too Much You Your

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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.

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Topics: About Because Book Common Cooking Exploration First Heat Ingredient Me Processes Quite Really Talk Understand Why

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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.

~Alton Brown

Topics: Against Almost Almost All Barrier Because Before Brush Easy Fish Gives Grill Heat High Least Lot Make Nice Oil Protection Real Really Side Skin Start Still Super Tends Turn Very Which You

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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.

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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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Topics: Basement Because Cold Figure Heat How Know Last Last Year Less Made Needed Only Refrigerator Thing Year You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Entertainer

Born: July 30th, 1962

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