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I posted a while back that I had ordered this book.  Well, it came a few weeks ago, but I haven’t had time to look at it until now.

If you buy Good Eats – The Early Years expecting a straight cookbook with a trazillion recipes, you will be disappointed.  Basically, what you are getting here is a book version of the first four seasons of Alton Brown’s wildly popular Food Network show, Good Eats.

The 140+ recipes in this big book are arranged by the episodes in which they appeared, and each episode is a chapter, arranged in the order in which they originally aired.  Along with the recipes come AB’s witty and useful commentary from the episodes, as well as behind the scenes notes.  This is a nice, big heavy book, which can also be used to beat home intruders over the head, should your home security systems fail. See? It’s a great multi-tasker, which I’m sure that AB would approve of!

Can you get all of these recipes for free from the Food Network site?  Yes.  But what makes this book great is AB himself; his commentary and stuff is missing from the Food Network recipes.  That’s what makes this book worth buying; it is a must-have for all Good Eats fans.  It’s especially good for people like me who don’t have cable, it contains info about episodes I haven’t seen, ones that never came out on DVD.

I eagerly await the next book in what will be a series, “Good Eats – The Middle Ages”.

Oh, and just so you know – neither AB nor anyone else paid me to say nice things about his book.  I bought this book from Amazon.com, using my own money.  So there!