I've always considered Good Eats to be the best cooking show on modern TV... Everyone else cooks, AB explains how cooking works! As a result, his recipes and techniques are easily adapted to other foods.

If you don't have his 'cookbook' I'm Just Here for the Food you should... there are only a few recipes, each of which demonstrates the cooking concepts discussed in the chapter - in fact the book is more of a basic textbook of the chemistry and physics of cooking...