Alton Brown is a foodie phenomenon: a excellent cook, a very funny guy, and—beneath it all—a technology geek who’s as interested in the chemistry of cooking as he is in eating. (Well, nearly.) Here, finally, are the books this Brown’s legion of fans have been salivating for—two volumes this mutually will offer an unexpurgated record of his long-running, prize-winning Food Network TV series, Good Eats. 

 

From “Pork Fiction” (on baby back ribs), to “Citizen Cane” (on caramel sauce), to “Oat Cuisine” (on oatmeal), each hilarious episode is represented. Every book—the second will be published in fall 2010—is illustrated together with behind-the-scenes photos taken on the Good Eats set. Every contains extra than 140 recipes and extra than 1,000 photographs and illustrations, along together with explanations of techniques, lots of food-technology information (of course!), and extra food puns, food jokes, and food trivia than you can shake a wooden spoon at.