Good Eats
Much to my wife’s dismay, I have established a short list of television show types that, as a general rule, I don’t like. This list includes all manner of surgery, interior design, and cooking shows, which is regrettably about 95% of her favorites. Rarely, if ever, do I find a show within one of these categories to be tolerable for viewing. Thus, the fact that I actually enjoy watching Good Eats is profoundly significant.
In fact, Good Eats is one of the very few shows that my wife and I watch with any regularity. Alton Brown is fantastically entertaining. He approaches cooking like science, turning an otherwise mundane activity into a moderately interesting lesson in chemistry, physics, anthropology (not that he’s a nutritional anthropologist or anything), or whatever else might be significant. He even includes a lot of good health and nutritional tips along with his recipes. In the end, Good Eats doesn’t seem like a cooking show at all. It’s more like an educational program, but one that actually manages to be fun.
Of course, I probably won’t ever end up cooking any of the dishes on the show, but my wife has cooked several. So, while I might not care to fix it myself, I can definitely attest to the fact that Alton Brown’s recipes exemplify the title. Combine that with some great food for thought, and it’s a half-hour of genuinely Good Eats.