The Best BBQ Podcasts You Should Listen to Now
A curated guide to the best barbecue and grilling podcasts for outdoor cooking tips, pitmaster insights, and BBQ culture.
Review of Steak House: The People, The Places, The Recipes by Eric Wareheim with Gabe Ulla
A fun romp through America’s signature steak houses with 45 recipes Eric Wareheim is probably best known as half of the comedy duo, Tim & Eric, with Tim Heidecker. In the late 2000s, their experimental comedy potpurri “Tim and Eric’s Awesome Show, Good Job!” became a cult classic of late-night TV on Adult Swim (Cartoon […]
Carnivore: A Butcher’s Secrets for Perfectly Cooked Meats, a cookbook review
With 60 inventive recipes and extensive butchery info, this book will get any meat lover’s juices flowing Butcher, chef, and meat-lover Dominique Rioux lives in Montreal, Canada, home to smoked meat meccas like Schwartz’s Deli and steakhouses like Joe Beef. She earned a diploma in retail butchering from Montreal’s culinary arts school in 2013—where she […]
Heavenly Hamburgers Made Easy: A Downloadable Deep Dive
Beef brisket, Texas-style, is the Mt. Everest of barbecue. It is the most challenging of all meats. But, if you let us be your sherpa, we can get you to the top. If you’ve ever wanted to create a smoked brisket at home just as good, if not better, than they do at Texas’ best BBQ joints then this BBQ beef brisket Deep Dive Guide is for you!
Heavenly Hamburgers Made Easy: A Downloadable Deep Dive
Beef brisket, Texas-style, is the Mt. Everest of barbecue. It is the most challenging of all meats. But, if you let us be your sherpa, we can get you to the top. If you’ve ever wanted to create a smoked brisket at home just as good, if not better, than they do at Texas’ best BBQ joints then this BBQ beef brisket Deep Dive Guide is for you!
Black Smoke Review
Barbecue is so beloved that its factual history can get clouded in a haze of hotly contested opinions. Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue clears the air. Adrian Miller, a James Beard Award-winning author and certified barbecue judge, shares historical documents, illustrations, photos, and 22 recipes that re-center the role of […]
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Ed Mitchell’s Barbeque: A Must-Have Cookbook
Ed Mitchell’s Barbeque is a celebration of the history and tradition of whole-hog barbeque from the “most famous” pitmaster in North Carolina, Ed Mitchell. Read our full review of this cookbook.
Real Food/Fake Food By Larry Olmsted Review And Rating
In the comprehensive book, Real Food/Fake Food, acclaimed author and reporter Larry Olmsted tells a sordid tale of fraud, mislabeling, illegal ingredients, imposters, and government malfeasance in our food supply.
Farm to Table
Charlie Bentley was a Vermont dairy farmer. He rented a small barn down on Route 313 next to the Green River, as is meanders its way towards the Battenkill. His herd of dairy cows numbered no more than 25 – he called them in every morning and evening, opening the barn doors, the cows already […]
BBQ Weights, Measures & Conversion Charts
Here are some very useful weights, measures, and equivalents that come in handy in the kitchen. You’ll find an online conversion calculator for metric, imperial, volume, weight, length, and temperature, plus various handy food equivalents for salt, fat, sugar, and many other ingredients.
Use A Cooking Log Or Diary
Want to cook better barbecue? Keep a log of your previous cooks and learn from them. In your log, include the meat, its weight, how you prepped it, what seasonings you used, the cooker and ambient air temperatures, the wood used, and how much. Here’s the log that Meathead uses. Download it as a pdf or Excel copy.
Cooking And Barbecue Glossary
Here is an A to Z glossary of barbecue and cooking terms. Some might call it “jargon,” which is the specialized language that people of like mind use to communicate. Either way, get to know these terms, use them, and you’ll be on your way to becoming a barbecue insider.
2007-03-09 Ernest Gallo: A Conundrum
A reminisce and a farewell to Ernest Gallo.