Alton Crawford Brown Quotes

• My feeling has always been that ‘Good Eats’ would have never happened had it been left to a committee.

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• My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.

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• Molecular gastronomy is not bad… but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.

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• Laughing brains are more absorbent.

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• Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how – you know there is no such thing as “cold.” There is only less heat.

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• 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.

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• If you really love stuffing, wait until the turkey comes out of the oven, add some of the pan drippings to the stuffing, and bake it in a dish. That’s called dressing, and that’s not evil – stuffing is, though.

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• I’m like a really goofy home ec teacher.

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• 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 myself. I’m a lousy delegator, but I’m learning.

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• 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.

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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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• 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.

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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.

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• I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy – and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

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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.

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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.

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• 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.

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• I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.

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• I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him.

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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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Alton Crawford Brown (61)

Birth:	30th July, 1962
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Author, Chef, Cinematographer, Television Presenter

About

Alton Crawford Brown was born in Los Angeles, California and spent his youth in the Boy Scouts. He is an American television personality, celebrity chef, author, actor, and cinematographer. He is the creator and host of the Food Network television show Good Eats, the mini-series Feasting on Asphalt and Feasting on Waves, and host and main commentator on Iron Chef America and Cutthroat Kitchen. Brown is also the author of several books on cookery. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Brown was the cinematographer for several music videos, including "The One I Love" by R.E.M..  Brown says that he was a poor science student in high school and college, but he focused on the subject to understand the underlying processes of cooking.

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