You dont 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 its on a grill is an actual flame. – Alton Brown
Im going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work – which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. Im a lousy delegator, but Im learning. – Alton Brown
I say grace. Im a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so Im pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But Im also thankful for the people that put the food on the table. – Alton Brown
The kitchens a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. Its biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, theres history. Yes, theres artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science. – Alton Brown
It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of ones inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness. – Coleman Dowell