Steven Raichlen is an award-winning author, journalist, cooking teacher, and TV host-and the man who gave barbecue a college education. His best-selling Barbecue Bible cookbook series (3 million copies in print) and Barbecue University® TV show on PBS have virtually reinvented American barbecue. Profiled on the Food Network (which ranked it the "Best BBQ Experience in the U.S."), and in Bon Appetit Magazine, Travel & Leisure Magazine and Esquire. In 2003, Bon Appetit named Raichlen "Cooking Teacher of the Year."