I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.
Quote by Alton Brown
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I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.
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Alton Brown Quotes
- Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good Eats' isn't about food, it's about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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 love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.
Best Quotes
- We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.
- Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
- Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
- I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
- Umubi ukwitaho aruta umwiza ukwiryah‎o
- A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
- Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
- I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.
- Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
- Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.