The Big Book of BBQ Plans
Want the ideal BBQ for some serious outdoor grilling? Award-winning garden designer and author Scott Cohen once again takes you from "dream it" to "do it" with this essential volume of BBQ plans. Packed with original drawings featuring some of Cohen's most inspired work, this resource includes detailed designs for over 60 hard-working, high appeal outdoor kitchens. Contractors and homeowners alike will find brilliant ideas and all the specifics they need to actually bring them to life. Every page spread features a new project with expertly illustrated elevations and footprints.
Weber's Big Book of Grilling
Building on the tremendous success of Weber's Art of the Grill (over 100,000 copies sold!), the world's best-known and most trusted grilling experts bring us the ultimate in barbecue cookbooks. Destined to become a sauce-stained classic, it's packed with 350 of the tastiest and most reliable recipes ever to hit the grill, hundreds of mouthwatering full-color photos, and countless sure-fire, time-honored techniques and tricks of the trade guaranteed to turn anyone into a barbecue champion. For the chef who's barely flipped a burger to the local grilling guru, here's all the advice and all the fabulous food required to wow the neighborhood--and at a price that's as red hot as the coals!
Holy Smoke
North Carolina is home to the longest continuous barbecue tradition on the North American mainland. Now available for the first time in paperback, Holy Smoke is a passionate exploration of the lore, recipes, traditions, and people who have helped shape North Carolina's signature slow-food dish. A new preface by the authors examines the latest news, good and bad, from the world of Tar Heel barbecue, and their updated guide to relevant writing, films, and websites is an essential. They trace the origins of North Carolina 'cue and the emergence of the heated rivalry between Eastern and Piedmont styles. They provide detailed instructions for cooking barbecue at home, along with recipes for the traditional array of side dishes that should accompany it. The final section of the book presents some of the people who cook barbecue for a living, recording firsthand what experts say about the past and future of North Carolina barbecue. Filled with historic and contemporary photographs showing centuries of North Carolina's "barbeculture," as the authors call it, Holy Smoke is one of a kind, offering a comprehensive exploration of the Tar Heel barbecue tradition.
The Big Book of BBQ
They've explored every unique Southern barbecue region, debated every barbecue sauce and technique controversy, and sampled the best Q in the country. Now the editors at Southern Living share it all with barbecue connoisseurs nationwide in this definitive book. Big Book of BBQ gives everyone from beginner backyard cooks to competitive pit masters, everything they'll need but the fire to celebrate the immense world of tantalizing barbecue, including: Recipes hailing from such landmarks as the Cradle of American BBQ - the Carolinas; the Pork and Rib Capital of the World - Memphis, TN; to the Beef BBQ Capital - Texas; and Curious White Sauce - Northern Alabama... Recipes range from traditional barbecue slow-cooked over a low fire to speed barbecuing over direct high heat. Succulent main attractions like Garlic Jerk Chicken, New-Orleans Style BBQ Shrimp, Molasses Baby Back Ribs, and Blueberry-Chipotle Wings.
The Big Book of Backyard Cooking
Food just tastes better under an open sky. In this handbook to the alfresco life, one of our best-known cooking teachers shows how to please friends, neighbors, and family with hundreds of delicious dishes suitable for enjoying the great outdoors -- whether it's a rooftop garden or a sprawling lawn. With classic fare such as fried chicken and potato salad, grilled favorites like juicy burgers, barbecued ribs, and sweet summer corn, plus fabulous new creations like Lamb Chops with Roquefort, Figs, and Rosemary and Chocolate Toffee Brownie Cake, eating and entertaining outdoors has never been easier. Rosbottom includes her favorite marinades and sauces, appetizers to keep the crowds at bay, deliciously fresh salads and starters, summery desserts, and much more, not to mention great tips for making sure grilled meats are done to perfection. Covering everything from fine dining under the stars to Sunday picnics by the lake, this latest addition to the big-selling Big Book series is the perfect guide to taking it outside.
