You 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.
Alton BrownMy feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.
Alton BrownThe thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.
Alton Brown