Tampa Bay food & drink events happening October 22-29, including WEDU visit from five-time James Beard winning author

Steven Raichlen Credit: Maryland Public Television There are some homes where the PBS is never not on, and those loyalists know about Steven Raichlen. He’s been the host of many programs from the once-publicly funded channel (“Barbecue University,” “Primal Grill,” “Project Smoke,” “Project Fire”), and had bylines in Food Wine, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times, where his cookbooks have appeared on best-seller lists. Raichlen, a self-proclaimed nice Jewish boy from Baltimore, has also won five James Beard awards for cookbooks like “BBQ USA” and “Healthy Jewish Cooking.” The 73-year-old calls Florida home now and is on tour after finally cooking up a memoir—“Man on Fire: Of Life, Love, Literature, and Really Good Barbecue” due Oct. 20—that tracks his life from the early Charm City days to his transition from French literature nerd to acclaimed kitchen and TV-newspaper guy. Raichlen comes to Tampa’s local PBS station, WEDU, for a night of BBQ (from Jimbo’s i