Alton Brown Quotes

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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.
• Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'
• 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…
• I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done…
• Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.
• 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…
• Laughing brains are more absorbent.
• Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
• 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. Yes,…
• I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work…
• 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,…
• A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows…
• I grill, therefore I am.
• The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.
• 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 fueled…
• 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?…
• Do not allow watching food to replace making food.
• Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.
• Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.
• 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.

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