Alton Brown Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.”

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

“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!”

“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.”

“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.”

“Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.”

“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.”

“Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.”