I am thinking of an Alton Brown Cookbook for a present. Any recommendations? nm

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4. He is a socially conservative Christian and probably is a Republican

All of the allegations of homophobia seem to all point back to one source (there may be others, but I haven't seen them). His wiki page makes no mention of it or anything else that's all that controversial. If the allegations are true, I wouldn't be surprised given the background I mentioned, but as yet the evidence for it doesn't seem to be all that concrete and if I were convinced he was a homophobe I would be the first to call him a shitbag. If he is, he certainly hides it very well which is pretty uncharacteristic for religious homophobes, particularly celebrities who are in a unique position to promote that sort of hate.

I watch his show, but I'm not really a huge fan. I find everything he does to be unoriginal, I don't think he's as funny as he thinks he is which makes his show a bit cheesy. That being said, he's really the only one on TV who demonstrates food science principles to any significant degree. I was actually happy when he said he wasn't going to make anymore Good Eats episodes because I hoped that void would be filled by someone else. Apparently whatever other plans he had fell through and he's back to making new episodes.