I am firmly in the lard camp. It must be what we call leaf lard, which is a specific kind of lard that resides around certain internal organs in the pig.
Alton BrownI say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table.
Alton BrownWhat tends to happen is that people will go - they've got hot broth, you know, they've added some liquid to their drippings, they've brought that up to heat. And then they try to add in a big clump of just kind of a handful of flour, and of course, it turns into library paste.
Alton BrownIt's funny, when you look back in history books or American cookery books, one of the reasons that the quinces and cranberries are used so often is because of their natural jelling properties.
Alton BrownYou know we fixate on the food so much itself: โOh, the ultimate brownie or the ultimate this or thatโ -- well, let me tell you something: Itโs all poop in about 12 hours, okay? The real power that food has is its ability to connect human beings to each other -- thatโs the stuff right there and, to me, everything else is secondary to that.
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