Alton Brown

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it’s based on history, on habits…

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy – and that is where…

You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear – things like hamburgers and…

I’m like a really goofy home ec teacher…

The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to…

I’m going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work – which…

I’m a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was…

Do not allow watching food to replace making food…

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now…

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication…

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success…

I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me…

I kept thinking, ‘Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and…

I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor…

You don’t want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things…