Alton Brown & Good Eats
Going to a different extreme than I normally cover, this is a mentally stimulating cooking class like no other. Diverging from the typical “cooking show” wherein a recipe is presented, some smiles, and showing pretty pictures of the completed product – Alton Brown presents using his cheezy “edutainment” format, a cooking show, that teaches you WHY you do each step, so that when you have finished watching and tried the recipe, you know how to use the fundamentals presented to modify, create, and even improve other recipes you already make.
Additionally he has a ton of books with vivid detail on some amazing recipes (some super simple and some insanely complex). In any case, they are worth the watch. He even has some free stuff on YouTube to give you a taste of what you will get.
