7 Alton Brown Quotes on Culture

Alton Brown quotes on culture

13. You're a French chef. Okay? Until great white sharks figure out how to catch rabies, that is going to be the scariest thing on earth.

43. Pope hat, Pope hat!

57. You make cupcakes, which are supposed to make people happy. And childlike. But instead, you and the foodie cognoscente have corrupted them into fussy, heavy, cloyingly clever, and sickeningly sweet cups of condescension! And I think I shall now wage war on you and your ilk!

69. Great googly-moogly!

103. The problem now is that even the really great little mom-and-pop places are trying to make themselves more like the thing that's trying to kill them. You know, 'I own a little hamburger stand but because the standard for hamburgers is McDonald's, I'm going to make my hamburgers more like McDonald's does so you'll like me.' So smaller places are losing their identity by attempting to conform in order to survive.

104. on Feasting On Asphalt: I wanted to do a project to go out and try to pretend that the big freeways don't exist and the big fast-food restaurants don't exist and that you can still have yourself a high old time if you pay attention, are willing to meet strangers -- which, in this culture, we're not so big on anymore really -- and kind of be willing to let the unexpected happen.

158. I have decided to move from the planet. I'm sorry but I simply cannot remain on a world where Paris Hilton is allowed to publish 'memoirs.' (Sunday, September 05, 2004)