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My Mantra Was To Educate People - To Actually Give Them The Know-how They Could Use - And To Do It In A Very Subversive Kind Of Way. I Would Entertain Them, And I Was Going To Teach Them Whether They Knew It Or Not.

Molecular Gastronomy Is Not Bad... But Without Sound, Basic Culinary Technique, It Is Useless.

I Think A Lot Of Food Shows, Especially When We Started 'good Eats' Back In The Late '90s, They Were Still Really About Food. 'good Eats' Isn't About Food, It's About Entertainment. If, However, We Can Virally Infect You With Knowledge Or Interest, Then All The Better.

I Would Have Bacteria And, Yeah, It Would Grow In What We Call The Danger Zone, Which Is Typically Between 40 And 140. But If I'm Getting Something Out Of My Refrigerator Where It's Been Basically Pretty Clean And I'm Putting It On My Counter, What Exactly Is Going To Happen In That Amount Of Time That Going Into A Hot Oven Isn't Going To Kill? Nothing.

I Approach Cooking From A Science Angle Because I Need To Understand How Things Work. If I Understand The Egg, I Can Scramble It Better. It's A Simple As That.