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I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy – and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time. – Alton Brown

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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

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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. – Alton Brown

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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 didnt think it was very worthwhile. – Alton Brown

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Theres nothing like a home-cooked meal – nothing! When people ask me what the best restaurant in L.A. is, I say, Uh, my house. Its more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way. – Giada De Laurentiis

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I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself. – Giacomo Casanova

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Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live. – Jane Siberry

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People always comment about my clothes. They dont think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook. – Padma Lakshmi

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Cooking is always very romantic! – Matthew Morrison

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Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited. – James Cardinal Gibbons

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