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Alton Brown
American
Entertainer
Born:
Jul 30
,
1962
Cooking
Food
Good
Me
People
You
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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
Thankful
God
Food
Grateful
People
Grace
Made
Big
Believe
Say
Table
Pretty
Put
For The People
Also
Him
Big Believer
Thank
Happen
Believer
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.
Alton Brown
Food
You
Before
Road
Hot
Hot Dogs
Like
Know
Most
Dear
Dogs
Hamburgers
Were
American
Hold
Even
Things
Peasant
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
You
Dinner
Disservice
Unless
Pele
Kid
Able
Feed
Make
Knows
How
Done
Going
Soccer
Them
Themselves
Your
Play
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
Food
School
Job
Daughter
Single
Every
Lunch
Fact
Could
Picked
Like
Qualifying
Understand
Culinary
Culinary School
Go
Up
Going
Decided
Ingredient
Who
Filmmaker
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
Best
Together
Advice
Other
Rules
Possible
Exactly
Only
Like
Pie
Involved
Very
Handle
Than
Liquid
Same
Little
Dough
Apply
We're getting dumbed down, taste-wise.
Alton Brown
Down
Getting
Do not allow watching food to replace making food.
Alton Brown
Food
Allow
Making
Replace
Watching
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
You
Game
Degree
Burger
Think
Detect
Temperature
Absolute
Mere
Name
Like
Know
Content
Shift
Which
Really
Cooked
Ground
Meat
Even
Connoisseur
Actually
Fat
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
Home
Me
You
People
Try
Some People
Impress
Circles
Table
Some
More
Could
Generally
Feel
Know
Around
Than
Crackers
Canned
Tuna
Cook
Less
Who
Serve
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
Good
Food
You
Flame
Too
Bad
Licking
See
Various
Makes
Does
Chemicals
Nasty
Hit
Want
While
Grill
Us
Really
Your
Actual
Thing
Things
Last
Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.
Alton Brown
Food
You
Science
Everything
Eat
Only
Part
Subjective
Laughing brains are more absorbent.
Alton Brown
Laughing
More
Brains
So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do.
Alton Brown
Job
Thought
Finally
Restaurant
Had
New
Institute
Until
Industry
New England
Culinary
Years
Quit
After
Worked
Full
England
Grasp
Two
Needed
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
Me
Grief
Try
Defensive
Kind
About
Something
Only
Throw
Take
Put
Know
Talking
Fake
Off
Being
Want
Anymore
Them
Really
Who
Even
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
Best
Good
You
People
Too Much
Job
Medicine
Too
Consider
Eat
Eating
Eats
Part
Know
Balanced
Balanced Diet
May
Diet
Much
Your
Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
Alton Brown
Work
Myself
Seriously
Extraordinarily
Take
Although
Very
For me, it was kind of like going into the military or something. And anybody - any male - who has ever worked in a French kitchen knows what I am talking about when I say that.
Alton Brown
Me
Military
Say
Kind
About
Something
Kitchen
Like
French
Knows
Talking
Am
Male
Any
Going
Anybody
Worked
Who
Ever
I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.
Alton Brown
Love
People
Cause
Problems
Battles
Dirty
Attempting
Leads
Occasionally
Without
Sound
Wits
Dish
Mean
Fast
I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.
Alton Brown
Work
Me
Game
People
Better
Nothing
Sympathy
Those
Out
Better Now
Picking
For The People
Forced
Want
Who
Now
Play
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.
Alton Brown
Me
Cooking
Book
First
About
Talk
Because
Understand
Heat
Quite
Common
Processes
Ingredient
Really
Exploration
Why
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
You
Protection
Before
Skin
Nice
Side
High
Easy
Super
Gives
Brush
Tends
Almost
Almost All
Make
Because
Least
Real
Still
Fish
Lot
Very
Heat
Oil
Which
Against
Grill
Turn
Really
Barrier
Start
That's the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that turkey meat, in its cooked state, is dry and flavorless. Does it have to be that way? No. We just have to focus on what the turkey is and what the turkey needs.
Alton Brown
Great
Needs
Hide
Focus
Skin
Recipes
State
Way
Fact
Stuffing
Most
Dry
Does
Ultimate
Ultimate Goal
Goal
Just
Turkey
Create
Cooked
Meat
Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes.
Alton Brown
Time
Generation
Cooking
Made
Enthusiasm
First
Down
Cold
Recipes
Television
Television Show
Collection
My Generation
Cash
Smith
First Time
Genuine
Gourmet
His
Julia
Debut
Child
Moved
Frugal
Conveyed
Show
Jeff
Slap
I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.
Alton Brown
Teacher
Home
Like
Goofy
Really
I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through my efforts to attract the opposite sex, I found that not only did cooking work, but that it was actually fun.
Alton Brown
Work
Cooking
Sex
Girl
Odds
Out
Only
Through
Simply
Over
Attract
Opposite
Opposite Sex
Offered
Improved
Efforts
Did
Asking
Cook
Radically
Fun
Found
Actually
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