Rick Browne, Ph.B.
Rick Browne is a renowned TV cooking show host, photojournalist, and author of 16 barbecue books. He was the creator, host, and executive producer of public television’s popular Barbecue America TV series, a cooking and travelogue highlighting the world’s outdoor culinary landscape. It has aired on more than 230 stations. Browne has appeared on “Good […]
Dave Joachim, AmazingRibs.com Vice President and Editorial Director
Editorial Director of AmazingRibs.com, David Joachim has authored, edited, or collaborated on more than 50 cookbooks, four of them on barbecue and grilling, and his Food Science column appeared in “Fine Cooking” magazine from 2011 to 2019. He’s a perfect match for a website dedicated to the “Science of Barbecue and Grilling.”
Greg Rempe, AmazingRibs.com Multi-Media Content Contributor
Greg Rempe is an AmazingRibs.com Multi-Media Content Contributor and well-known internet radio personality. Greg hosts the weekly internet radio talk show, “The BBQ Central Show,” a program dedicated to the barbecue and grilling industry.
Paul Sidoriak, AmazingRibs.com Contributing Author
Paul Sidoriak is an AmazingRibs.com Content Contributor and is a leading BBQ, grilling, outdoor griddling, and pizza cookbook author.
Nate Maliwacki
Marietta Sims
Chef Ryan
Brigit Binns, AmazingRibs.com Culinary Content Contributor
Brigit Binns is an AmazingRibs.com Culinary Content Contributor and co-author of Meathead’s She is is the author of more than two dozen cookbooks, many for Williams-Sonoma.
Clint Cantwell, AmazingRibs.com President And BBQ Personality
Clint Cantwell is AmazingRibs.com’s President, a championship competition BBQ cook, and outdoor cooking personality.
Big Jim Maivald, Former AmazingRibs.com CTO
Big Jim was AmazingRibs.com’s CTO prior to his passing in 2023. He was a graphic designer with over 30 years of experience working with graphic design, web design and office productivity software.
Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
Max Good is AmazingRibs.com’s Vice President of Product Reviews & Keeper of the Flame and is the world’s only full-time reviewer of outdoor cooking equipment including smokers, grills, pizza ovens, griddles, and more.
Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer
Founder and publisher of AmazingRibs.com, Meathead is known as the site’s Hedonism Evangelist and BBQ Whisperer. He is also the author of the New York Times Best Seller “Meathead, The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling”, and is a BBQ Hall Of Fame inductee.
Meet Meathead, The BBQ Whisperer, Mythbuster, And Barbecue Hall Of Famer
Meathead is the founder and publisher of AmazingRibs.com, and is also known as the site’s Hedonism Evangelist and BBQ Whisperer. He is also the author of “Meathead, The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling”, a New York Times Best Seller and named one of the “100 Best Cookbooks of All Time” by Southern Living.
John “Spinaker” Bowlsby
Spinaker grew up in the BBQ-starved state of Minnesota. People here are more likely to be eating hot dish or lutefisk than brisket and ribs. But he has always been drawn to outdoor cooking. “My BBQ journey probably started where many others’ did; on the deck with my father. He loved to cook burgers and […]
Jerod Broussard
Jerod Broussard is a maestro of the drum smoker and Texas barbecue in general. Born and raised in Southwest Louisiana on a rice farm, Jerod earned a Bachelor’s degree in Animal Science and moved to Texas where he has been a food inspector since 2002. Don’t be shy with your questions regarding chicken, Jerod inspects […]