Alton Brown Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Laughing brains are more absorbent.”

“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.”

“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 that do that.”

“That's the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that turkey meat, in its cooked state, is dry and flavorless. Does it have to be that way? No. We just have to focus on what the turkey is and what the turkey needs.”

“Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.”

“Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.”

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

“My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.”

“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.”