3 December 2020 Alton Brown 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.
3 December 2020 Alton Brown Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.
3 December 2020 Alton Brown 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.
3 December 2020 Alton Brown 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.
3 December 2020 Alton Brown Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.
3 December 2020 Alton Brown I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy – and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.
3 December 2020 Alton Brown 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.
3 December 2020 Alton Brown You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear – things like hamburgers and hot dogs – were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.
3 December 2020 Alton Brown 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.
3 December 2020 Alton Brown The worst food you’ll ever eat will probably be prepared by a ‘cook’ who calls himself a ‘chef.’ Mark my words.
3 December 2020 Alton Brown 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.
3 December 2020 Alton Brown 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.
3 December 2020 Alton Brown 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.
3 December 2020 Alton Brown 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 by charcoal.
3 December 2020 Alton Brown 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.
3 December 2020 Alton Brown I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I’m better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don’t.
3 December 2020 Alton Brown 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!
3 December 2020 Alton Brown I kept thinking, ‘Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time… a show that got down to the ‘why things happen.’ Plus, I hated my job – I didn’t think it was very worthwhile.
