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...

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...

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...

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...

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!Like a Clint Eastwood cowboy, brisket is unforgiving. Cooking it wrong can result in meat as tough as a wrangler’s leather chaps.Y...

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...

The Chicago Food Encyclopedia is a far-ranging portrait of an American culinary paradise. Hundreds of entries deliver all of the visionary restauranteurs, Michelin superstars, beloved haunts, and food companies of today and yesterday. More than 100 sumptuous images include thirty full-color photographs that transport readers to dining rooms and food stands across the city. Throughout, a roster of writers, scholars, and industry experts pays tribute to an expansive--and still expanding--foo...

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...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A complete meat and brisket-cooking education from the country's most celebrated pitmaster and owner of the wildly popular Austin restaurant Franklin Barbecue.When Aaron Franklin and his wife, Stacy, opened up a small barbecue trailer on the side of an Austin, Texas, interstate in 2009, they had no idea what they’d gotten themselves into. Today, Franklin Barbecue has grown into the most popular, critically lauded, and obsessed-o...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A complete meat and brisket-cooking education from the country's most celebrated pitmaster and owner of the wildly popular Austin restaurant Franklin Barbecue.When Aaron Franklin and his wife, Stacy, opened up a small barbecue trailer on the side of an Austin, Texas, interstate in 2009, they had no idea what they’d gotten themselves into. Today, Franklin Barbecue has grown into the most popular, critically lauded, and obsessed-o...