Alton Brown

Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.' ↗

— Alton Brown

#cooks #employed #good #rarely #refer

Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it. ↗

— Alton Brown

#everything #food #only #part #science

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously. ↗

— Alton Brown

#extraordinarily #i #i do #myself #seriously

Culinary 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 Brown

#based #charcoal #come #culinary #fact

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it. ↗

— Alton Brown

#being done #believe #communication #done #earth

I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning. ↗

— Alton Brown

#delegate #doing #going #harder #having

Laughing brains are more absorbent. ↗

— Alton Brown

#laughing #more

A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that. ↗

— Alton Brown

#food #inspire #lot #need #only

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera. ↗

— Alton Brown

#because #behind #camera #college #college degree

The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words. ↗

— Alton Brown

#calls #chef #cook #eat #ever