Alton Brown is back with his fine cooking program, Good Eats, this time in an online version. I like watching this guy because I think he uses television very well and I always learn something about something. Often, the lesson is that I don't know enough about cooking to cook whatever he's cooking, or don't have the time or patience or kitchen space or utensils or spice rack. In this first installment of his new series, he makes one of my favorite dishes — chicken parmesan — and pretty well ensures that I will never try to make it at home.
Which is fine with me…honest. I'm not a very good cook and I will never do enough of it to become a very good cook. Every time I toy with the idea of cooking something, I watch some online video, see an experienced chef make it and am disabused of the foolish thought that I can do that. That, to me, is what cooking programs are for. I'm going to follow Alton Brown's new show and I hope real soon he makes potato latkes because I have this idea in the back of my head that I could do that and I need to be shown how wrong I am. Here's why I won't even attempt chicken parm…
