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,… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.' — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Good service can save a bad meal, but there is no level of food that can save bad service. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food,… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
You know we fixate on the food so much itself: “Oh, the ultimate brownie or the ultimate this or that” -- well,… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
No matter how much creativity goes into it, cooking is an art. Or perhaps I should say a craft. It abides by… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the same issue… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
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… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
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… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
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.… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
I'm not a slave driver or a yeller. I was yelled at in kitchens and other workplaces. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
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… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
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… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.' — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
