New York Times BestsellerNAMED A BEST COOKBOOK BY Serious Eats • Christopher Kimball • Chicago Tribune • BBC • Wired • Epicurious • Leite's Culinaria • Food & WineFor succulent results every time, nothing is more crucial than understanding the science behind the interaction of food, fire, heat, and smoke. This is the definitive, myth-busting guide to the concepts, methods, equipment, and accessories of barbecue and grilling. The founder and editor of the world's most popula...

“The only book on outdoor cookery you’ll ever need.” —Alton BrownNational BBQ and Grilling Association BBQ Book of the Year 2026Amazon May 2025 Best of the Month PickThe Meathead Method is where barbecue goes next. In the follow-up to his New York Times bestseller Meathead: The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling, BBQ Hall of Famer and founder of AmazingRibs.com...

Meathead bridges scientific discoveries with athletic anecdotes to unravel the neuroscience of exercise for the jock, gym rat, and sports nut. This is one of few popular science books that strictly focuses on exercise and athletic performance at the level of the brain. This book also serves as inspirational reading for the pre-determined couch potato by showing how easy it is for the brain to positively crave exercise and the short- and long-term benefits of exercise for brain hea...

For succulent results every time, nothing is more crucial than understanding the science behind the interaction of food, fire, heat, and smoke. This is the definitive guide to the concepts, methods, equipment, and accessories of barbecue and grilling. The founder and editor of the world's most popular BBQ and grilling website, amazingribs.com, Meathead Goldwyn applies the latest research to backyard cooking more than 100 thoroughly tested recipes.With the help of physicist and food...

This Version 2 is significantly expanded and improved.Everything You Need To Know About America’s Favorite Food: Pork Ribs, With Great Tested Recipes, And More Than 100 Photos. Explains the different cuts, different cooking concepts and techniques and science, and recipes for an award-winning rub, sauce, and all the major cuts including smoked, Last Meal Ribs, Competition Ribs, Oven Baked, Chinese-style, and a real McRib Sandwich.Meathead is one of...

A new generation Famous Five: Jo, Dylan, Allie, and Max are the children of the four kids - and not forgetting Timmy II to make up the Five!In book eleven, the Royal Treasury of Avalon Island is stolen!The Famous Five meet Scooby Doo! All the heritage of the original Famous Five - adventure, mystery, action - combined with a great modern-day feel and lots of laughs.All 24 books in the series feature black and white inside illustrations and have been...

This Version 2 is significantly expanded and improved.We've all experienced BBQ chicken featuring charred skin, burnt sauce, and undercooked meat. No more! Say goodbye to dry, stringy, cardboardy, boring birds and say hello to the most tender, flavorful, juicy chicken you ever tasted.With “Barbecue Chicken Made Easy: Everything You Need To Know About Amazing Chicken On the Grill & Smoker” by Meathead and Brigit Binns, you can master the art of perf...

This Version 2 is significantly expanded and improved.Turkey – it’s America’s bird, the apple pie of poultry! Most of us relegate turkey to the Thanksgiving or Christmas table only. Try as we might, we at AmazingRibs.com just can’t understand this! Turkey, when properly cooked, is flavorful, moist, versatile and a veritable magnet for flavor. We enjoy it year round. But it is tricky to cook. Slip up and the breasts are as dry as cardboard and the skin is f...

Trapped by a lethal boiling sun, in the neon ruins of a fallen supercity, three tank-grown ultrasoldiers have nothing to kill but time and no enemy but their own overheated flesh.Daily hormone shots gave them hard bodies, but without a seedsucker to offer them relief, they soon have something even harder to contend with. It's not gay if you come out on top...right?This is the third in the Fuck Yourself Friday series of shorts. These stories contain ...

This Version 2 is significantly expanded and improved.By marrying water and fire, by marrying sous vide with the grill or smoker, you get "sous vide que", and you can achieve extraordinary results, in many cases, better than with either cooking method on its own.With this book you will learn all the basics of sous vide along with never-before-published safety info and learn how to use fire and smoke to amp the food up. We'll show you how to sear on...

Can an android override its programming?An android, Paul, is walking home from work when he's set upon by a gang of adolescent humans, Meatheads, who hunt benign sophonts (sapient androids with superior reasoning capacity) and scoop out their eyes for trophies. Rendered sightless, he's rescued by a passerby, Philip, who then introduces him to another sophont, Sylas.Sylas is different. He was created without the legally required emotion inhibitor and functio...

Whenever steak is on the menu, it’s a special occasion.The most frequent question we get is: How do the great steakhouses do it? How do they cook perfect steaks every time, with sizzling, dark, flavorful crusts, evenly done from edge to edge on the inside, tender and juicy, with big, bold, beefy flavor?In these pages, we share everything we have learned over the years about making great steak. We cover everything from choosing the grade and cut of meat to aging steaks, trim...