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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.

~Alton Brown

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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.

~Alton Brown

Topics: About Anymore Being Defensive Even Fake Grief Kind Know Me Off Only Put Really Something Take Talking Them Throw Try Want Who

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Laughing brains are more absorbent.

~Alton Brown

Topics: Brains Laughing More

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I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good Eats' isn't about food, it's about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better.

~Alton Brown

Topics: About Back Better Eats Entertainment Food Good However Interest Knowledge Late Lot Really Shows Started Still Then Think Were You I Think

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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.

~Alton Brown

Topics: Angles Basic Become Cooking Different Embedded End Going In The End Issue Makes Only Perhaps Points Presentation Really Same Sink Styles Things Think View I Think

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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.

~Alton Brown

Topics: Could Culinary Daughter Decided Every Fact Filmmaker Food Go Going Ingredient Job Like Lunch Picked Qualifying School Single Understand Up Who

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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.

~Alton Brown

Topics: About Am Been Ever Filmmaker Films Food Know Make Makes Martin Mob Movies Scorsese You I Am

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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.

~Alton Brown

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A pie dough comes together exactly like a biscuit only there is very, very little liquid and no leavening involved. Other than that, the same rules apply. My best advice: handle the dough as little as possible.

~Alton Brown

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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.

~Alton Brown

Topics: Able Dinner Disservice Done Feed Going How Kid Knows Make Play Soccer Them Themselves Unless You Your

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Entertainer

Born: July 30th, 1962

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