Mastering the Grill: The Owner’s Manual for Outdoor Cooking
This New York Times bestselling grill guide helps you understand the science of grilling so you can transform it into an art. Find hundreds of tips and techniques, mouthwatering photos, and 350 surefire recipes, including everything from rubs and marinades to appetizers, entrees, side dishes, and desserts.
Williams Sonoma Grill School
From bestselling authors and grill experts David Joachim and Andrew Schloss comes Williams-Sonoma Grill School: 150+ Recipes & Essential Lessons for Cooking on Fire. This all-inclusive guide to grilling features 30 easy-to-master lessons, dozens of failproof techniques, and over 100 mouthwatering recipes.
The Tailgater’s Cookbook
This cookbook provides 75 must-have recipes to make at the game or take along for tailgating. Feast on beer boiled shrimp, Memphis style ribs, and sophisticated desserts like tiramisu. Also includes tips on planning and essential equipment for cooking up a great party in the parking lot.
DIY Cocktails: A Guide To Creating A Variety Of Mixed Drinks
A quality cocktail recipe book is a must for any home bar and one of our favorites is “DIY Cocktails: A Simple Guide to Creating Your Own Signature Drinks” by Marcia Simmons and Jonas Halpren. DIY Cocktails is based on categories and ratios so we can understand the concepts of what the elements of a balanced mix.
300 Big and Bold Barbecue and Grilling Recipes by Karen Adler & Judith Fertig
As the title says, this book is all about the recipes, and they look wonderful.
25 Essentials: Techniques for Grilling Fish by Karen Adler & Judith Fertig
This pretty, little, inexpensive, spiral bound cookbook explains the simple guidelines for grilling seafood beautifully.
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.
Party Planning: How Much to Cook for a Crowd
So you’re cooking for a crowd. How much food do you need? Here’s how to plan for a party or special occasion, including some basic rules of thumb and tips on how to handle dietary restrictions, how to prep ahead, and how to calculate the right amount of food so no one goes hungry.
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.