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Alton Brown Biography

Alton Crawford Brown (born July 30, 1962) is an American television personality, food show presenter, author, actor, cinematographer, and musician. He is the creator and host of the Food Network television show Good Eats (14 seasons), host of the mini-series Feasting on Asphalt and Feasting on Waves, and host and main commentator on Iron Chef America, Cutthroat Kitchen and Camp Cutthroat. Brown is a best-selling author of several books on food and cooking. On Alton's 2017 book tour, he stated Good Eats will have a "sequel", and it will be released in 2018 on the internet. He is the songwriter and lead performer for his CD Bitter Like Me.

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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.

Band, Doors, Managed, Opened, School, Video

Believe me, a grain is a terrible thing to waste.

Believe, Terrible, Waste

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

College, Firsts, Food, Time, Travel

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.

Dinner, Done, Kids, Play, Soccer, Unless

All [replacing of fat] does is lead to dissatisfaction and I think that dissatisfaction results in overeating.

Doe, Lead, Overeating, Results, Thinking

The skin is forming because of proteins, just like if you cook milk or anything else that's got a coagulant protein in it.

Coagulant, Cook, Milk, Protein, Skins

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.

Empowering, Inspire, Needs, Shows, Tempt

Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.

Ferret, Food, Giving, Hurt, Shave

I played every bad guy in Shakespeare.

Bad, Bad Guys, Guy, Played, Shakespeare

Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it

Enough, Excited, Happens, Real, Takes

I'm prickly. I fuss over every single detail.

Detail, Details, Fuss, Prickly, Single

Racism. It's ugly. Even in tubers.

Racism, Tubers, Ugly

I feel a strong wakeup call and need to build social connections.

Call, Connections, Needs, Strong, Wakeup

I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles around me. The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do.

Circles, Cook, Home, Know, People

Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured.

Fascinating, Ice, Our World, Take Me, Thing

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, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.

Actually, Biology, Chemistry, Happens, Kitchen, Physics

I do know I'm a control freak.

Control, Control Freak, Freak, Know, Knows

I would have bacteria and, yeah, it would grow in what we call the danger zone, which is typically between 40 and 140. But if I'm getting something out of my refrigerator where it's been basically pretty clean and I'm putting it on my counter, what exactly is going to happen in that amount of time that going into a hot oven isn't going to kill? Nothing.

140, Bacteria, Exactly Is, Hot, Kill

My mantra was to educate people - to actually give them the know-how they could use - and to do it in a very subversive kind of way. I would entertain them, and I was going to teach them whether they knew it or not.

Actually, Giving, Kind, Mantra, People, Use

Good service can save a bad meal, but there is no level of food that can save bad service.

Good, Good Service, Levels, Meal, Meals, Service

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