My mantra was to educate people - to actually give them the know-how they could use - and to do it in a very subversive kind of way. I would entertain them, and I was going to teach them whether they knew it or not.
Alton BrownCulinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.
Alton BrownThe skin is forming because of proteins, just like if you cook milk or anything else that's got a coagulant protein in it.
Alton BrownThe jewel of the lard is right around the kidneys. But this is a fat that has a very specific crystalline formation and a high melting point.
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