American - Entertainer | July 30, 1962 -
Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.
Alton Brown
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Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.
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I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.
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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.
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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.
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The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.
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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.
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I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.
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I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.
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I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile.
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My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.
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Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
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