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Alton Brown

I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.

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Alton Brown is saying that because he switched from filmmaking to cooking, he realized it was important to fully understand every ingredient he used. Without that knowledge, he might only be qualified for a simple, low-level food service job rather than a professional culinary career.

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