I'm a bit of a Raichlen devotee, and I love how much he strays from usual cuisines. Great teacher I think, certainly a great writer of recipe books, in that so many of my grilled or smoked recipes started from a kernel of one of his, but I'll admit he has a funny on-screen persona. For some reason I enjoy taking things he says with a healthy amount of double entendre...I mean, as much as he talks about rubbing, err, meat, and then his mantra of "keeping it hot, clean, and lubricated", I mean, he just walks right into that stuff!

I've never had cable TV, so I wouldn't know Alton Brown from...a thing that is not Alton Brown.