Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it. – Alton Brown
Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes its based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal. – Alton Brown
Im a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didnt understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughters school. – Alton Brown
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
Most of Roosevelts innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN. – Thomas Frank