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.
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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.
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Alton Brown Quotes
- You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.
- 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.
- I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.
- The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
- Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
- Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
- I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.
- Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
- Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
- They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
- Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.