Good Eats (1999)

Equal parts smart and sardonic, creator and host Alton Brown uses a combination of classroom methods and wacky comedy sketches to explain not just how to whip up an excellent dish, but also why the ingredients interact as they do when you put them all together. Informative, hilarious and decidedly off-the-wall, "Good Eats" won a 2007 Peabody Award for distinguished achievement in television.