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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.

~Alton Brown

Topics: About Because Communicating Despise Done Hate Heat Proper Recipe Should Words Write Writers

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I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

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Topics: About Anything Go Lot Spend Stuff Talk Through Time Understand Understanding Write

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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.

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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.

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You don't want flame to hit your food. 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.

~Alton Brown

Topics: Actual Bad Chemicals Does Flame Food Good Grill Hit Last Licking Makes Nasty Really See Thing Things Too Us Various Want While You Your

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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.

~Alton Brown

Topics: Also Believe Believer Big Big Believer Food For The People God Grace Grateful Happen Him Made People Pretty Put Say Table Thank Thankful

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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.

~Alton Brown

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Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.

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Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Entertainer

Born: July 30th, 1962

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