New York Times bestselling author and star of Destination America's BBQ Pitmasters Myron Mixon goes back to the basics of backyard pit barbecuing with BBQ Rules, offering readers essential old-school barbecue techniques and 50 classic recipes. In barbecue, "old-school" means cooking on a homemade coal-fired masonry pit, where the first step is burning wood to make your own coals, followed by shoveling those coals beneath the meat and smoking that meat until it acquires the distinct flavour only true pit-smoking can infuse. With easy-to-follow, straightforward instruction, America's pitmaster shows you how and also demonstrates methods for cooking on traditional gas and charcoal grills common in most backyards. The book is divided into four parts-Meat Helpers, The Hog, Birds, The Cow-and features recipes and methods, including: * Pit Smoked Pulled Pork * North Carolina Yella Mustard-Based Barbecue Sauce * Prize-winning Brisket * Smoked Baby Back Ribs * Thick and Smoky T-Bone Steaks Presenting step-by-step illustrations on building a pit, managing a fire, selecting meats for the pit and the best wood to burn in it, and more, Mixon offers all of the fundamental lessons to becoming a champion backyard pitmaster. Filled with Mixon's southern charm, personal stories, and never-before-shared methods, BBQ Rules is a down-home, accessible return to old-school pit smoked barbecue.

Crispy, salty, smoky and truly irresistible - celebrate one of our best-loved comfort foods. It features an enticing collection of mouthwatering dishes including Pork and Bacon Rillettes, Leek and Bacon Tart, Mackerel with Nutty Bacon Stuffing, and Bacon, Brie and Fresh Date Muffins. The introduction discusses bacon's history, the different international styles of bacon and how to buy and store it. It includes over 300 glorious photographs, showing key techniques and a perfect image of each finished dish. Complete nutritional information is given for every recipe to help with dietary planning. Who can resist the allure of bacon, sizzling slowly in a pan? Whether starring as the main ingredient or to add a distinctive finishing touch, this wonderful book will show just how versatile and indispensable bacon is in the kitchen. Use it to pep up hearty soups and casseroles, wrap it around chestnuts or halloumi cheese for a moreish appetizer, enliven side dishes with a generous sprinkling of crispy crunchy bacon bits, or add that perfect salty taste to breads and pies. With fabulous photographs of each finished dish and easy to understand instructions, this book proves that bacon really is the ideal addition to any meal.

Sometimes all you want is the best. This spectacular volume gives you just that, with more than 115 top-rated recipes, crystal-clear instructions, and tips and tricks from Weber - everything you need to make your home the most popular place on the block. Weber experts and fans have carefully selected the real standouts from more than 2,000 original Weber recipes. These classics have all been re-photographed, retested and reimagined for today's cook.

Passionate about steak, award-winning food and travel writer Mark Schatzker sets off in a quest for perfection in the art of cooking beef. His odyssey takes him thousands of miles through eight countries, and sees him tuck into more than 100 lbs of steak. He gasps for air on Texas feedlots; dodges the descendants of prehistoric aurochs inFrance; encounters grass-fed glory in Scotland and ferventlocalism in Italy; debunks the myth of beer-massaged cows in Kobe; and admires Argentinian grilling savvy.Schatzker also discovers that, whilst there's a lot of steak around, there's not a lot of great steak. To determine why this might be, he meets with ranchers, chefs, experts on flavour and animal welfare and even chemists and historians. Some key issues that emerge include breed integrity, marbling, grass versus grain feed, slaughterhouse conditions and industrial practices designed solely to maximize output. Finally, he has ago at raising a cow himself ...In humorous, lively and highly informative prose, Schatzker pursues his obsession with admirable thoroughness.This illuminating study of steak and its discontents as well as its many delights will resonate with avid and casual meat-eaters alike, and will even make vegetarians go 'hmm'.

Check it out! Beefed up with our favorite dishes, you'll love Our Favorite Ground Beef Recipes cookbook with favorites like nachos magnifico and stroganoff skillet. The handy purse-perfect size is great to take along to the grocery.

This fantastic collection of recipes for meat, fish and seafood and vegetable smoking will give you all the inspiration you need to expand your BBQ repertoire. From classic Baby back ribs to ambitious Smoked duck and cherry sausages, these mouthwatering dishes will prove that you don't need a professional smoker, or hours of time, to get fantastic results. With cookery methods for all types of barbecues and smokers, insider tips for getting the best results, notes on wood chips, papers and planks, and food pairing suggestions, Weber's Complete Barbecue Smoking will help you achieve great taste with minimum effort.

Butchery was nearly a dead art, until a recent renaissance turned progressive meat cutters into culinary cult idols. Inspired by a locally driven, nose-to-tail approach to butchery, this new wave of meat mavens is redefining the way we buy and cook our beef, pork, fowl, and game. The momentum of this revived butcher-love has created a carnivorous frenzy, pulling a new generation of home cooks straight into the kitchen Primal Cuts: Cooking with America s Best Butchers is their modern meat bible. Marissa Guggiana, food activist, writer, and fourth generation meat purveyor, traveled the country to discover 50 of our most gifted butchers and share their favorite dishes, personal stories, and cooking techniques. From the Michelin star chef to the small farmer who raises free-range animals butchers are the guide for this unique visual cookbook, packed with tons of their most prized recipes and good old-fashioned know-how. Readers will learn how to cook conventional and unconventional meat cuts, how to talk to their local butcher, and even how to source and buy their own whole animals for their home freezer. Much more than just a cookbook, Primal Cuts is a revealing look into the lives, philosophy, and work of true food artisans, all bound by a common respect for the food they produce and an absolute love for what they do.

This is a definitive resource for the modern meat lover, with 125 recipes and fully-illustrated step-by-step instructions for making brined, smoked, cured, skewered, braised, rolled, tied, and stuffed meats at home; plus a guide to sourcing, butchering, and cooking with the finest cuts.

This is the definitive guide to Irish beef, covering every aspect of buying, preparing and cooking it.Pat Whelan, Ireland's foremost butcher, shares the benefit of his inherited expertise as a fifth-generation farmer and butcher, empowering readers with the knowledge to seek out the very best beef available.

Katy McGuinness shows you how to create delicious dishes using every part of the animal with recipes selected to ensure that this is the only guide to cooking beef the domestic cook will ever need. The classics are all included, as are quick and easy midweek suppers and more complex dishes for leisurely weekend entertaining. There is a whole section devoted to the perfect steak, and the chapter on roasting removes the fear factor from Sunday lunchtime once and for all. With beautiful photography taken on the farm as well as in the kitchen, this unique book is one to celebrate.

Oh, what to cook? We are spoiled for choice when it comes to cooking-we have a multitude of fresh fruit and vegetables, herbs and spices and fresh meats of all types available to us. This book presents you with a range of tips to get the best out of whatever type and cut of meat you choose to cook. Savour the tastes of meat cooked to perfection for your friends and family. All the recipes in this little compedium of cooking are beautifully photographed so you will know just how they will appear on your plate. Whether you are a novice or an experienced cook, you will find all these recipes to be the perfect blend of simplicity of preparation and sophistication of flavor, and you will enjoy not only eating them but preparing them as well. Go to it-you will be so glad you did.

Home Production of Quality Meats and Sausages - The Making of a Sausage Maker. There has been a need for a comprehensive one-volume reference on the manufacture of meats and sausages at home. There are many cookbooks loaded with recipes which do not build any foundation for the serious hobbyist to follow. This leaves him with little understanding of the sausage making process and afraid to introduce his own ideas. There are highly technical and expensive professional books that are written for meat plant managers or graduate students pursuing a master's degree in meat technology. Unfortunately, these works are written in such difficult technical terms, that most of them are beyond the comprehension of an average person. Home Production of Quality Meats and Sausages bridges the gap that exists between highly technical textbooks and the requirements of the typical hobbyist. Technical terms were substituted with their equivalent but simpler meanings and many photographs, drawings and tables were included. The book covers topics such as curing and making brines, smoking meats and sausages, U.S. Standards, making fresh, smoked, emulsified, fermented and air dried products, making special sausages such as head cheeses, blood and liver sausages, low salt, low fat and Kosher products, hams, bacon, butts and loins, poultry, fish and game, safety, creating your own recipes and much more... To get the reader started 172 recipes are provided which were chosen for their originality and historical value. Although recipes play an important role in these products, it is the process that ultimately decides the sausage quality. It is perfectly clear that the authors don't want the reader to copy the recipes only: "We want him to understand the sausage making process and we want him to create his own recipes. We want him to be the sausage maker."

DIY fever + quality meat mania = old-school butchery revival! Artisan cooks who are familiar with their farmers market are now buying small farm raised meat in butcher-sized portions. Dubbed a rock star butcher by the, em>New York Times, San Francisco chef and self-taught meat expert Ryan Farr demystifies the butchery process with 500 step-by-step photographs, master recipes for key cuts, and a primer on tools, techniques, and meat handling. This visual manual is the first to teach by showing exactly what butchers know, whether cooks want to learn how to turn a primal into familiar and special cuts or to simply identify everything in the case at the market.

First published in the United Kingdom, THE RIVER COTTAGE MEAT BOOK quickly became an underground hit among food cognoscenti around the world. Now tailored for American cooks, this loving, authoritative, and galvanizing ode to good meat is one part manifesto on high-quality, local, and sustainable meat production; two parts guide to choosing and storing meats and fowl; and three parts techniques and recipes for roasting, cooking, barbecuing, preserving, and processing meats and getting the most out of leftovers. With this thought-provoking and practical guide, meat eaters can knowledgeably buy and prepare meat for better health and better living, while supporting the environment, vibrant local economies, and respectful treatment of animals.
Already a sensation in the United Kingdom, this groundbreaking treatise on choosing and preparing meat is now available in the United States for the first time. Includes more than 100 recipes and more than 200 full-color photographs. Thoughtfully Americanized, with complete information about assorted cuts (including illustrations), production standards, and sources for buying and learning about meats in the United States. British edition has sold 150,000 copies.



ReviewsJames Beard Foundation 2008 Cookbook Awards: Cookbook of the Year Award!James Beard Foundation 2008 Cookbook Awards: Single Subject Category Winner! ‚AuDroll, learned Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has done the meat-eating world a big favor with The River Cottage Meat Book . . . The perfect book for mindful carnivores.‚Au‚AiBoston Globe‚AuFearnley-Whittingstall confronts both the moral and gustatory issues surrounding carnivorism and provides 150 excellent recipes.‚Au‚AiNew York Newsday‚AuFearnley-Whittingstall asks us to take grown-up moral responsibility for the act of eating meat‚Aicertainly enough responsibility to inquire about how the animal lived and died. All this is spelled out at fervent (and deserved) length before we get near a bit of cooking instruction. Luckily, Mr. Fearnley-Whittingstall turns out to be as zealous a cook as he is a reformer, equally able to appreciate the simplicity of Irish stew or a good beefburger, or to lead people through the intricacies of pork pie or cider-cured ham.‚Au‚AiNew York Times‚AuThose who find that calves' livers and pig's trotters are best contemplated at a distance should keep well away from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Those of us with the opposite problem worship him as a god. This is not a case of macho posturing over a barbecue pit: There is more cooking know-how in Fearnley-Whittingstall's little finger than you will find in the graduating class of any cooking school in the country. His book is stuffed with wit, erudition, and one slow-cooked, lovingly constructed recipe after another.‚Au‚AiNPR.org Holiday 2007One of the Year's Best Cookbooks: ‚AuHugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is a brilliant, argumentative British cook and food writer . . . his recipes happen to be terrific.‚Au‚AiGourmet#1 Cookbook of the Year‚AiAmazon Editor's Picks in Cooking, Food & Wine100 to Taste List‚AiFood & Wine‚AuThis is one to read and cook from during barbecue season‚Aiand to get inspired by the rest of the year.‚Au‚AiBon Appetit‚AuA book to help us truly understand the philosophical and pragmatic aspects of the meat on our table.‚Au‚AiBoston Globe‚AuThe ultimate reference for the serious carnivore.‚Au‚AiNew York Daily News‚AuThis guy gets physical with meat . . . A trencherman's manual of meat that includes recipes‚Aifrom down-home steak-and-kidney pie to more exalted fare like a salad of seared pigeon breast with pan-juice vinaigrette‚Aiand graphic how-tos on buying and butchering, plus answers to questions you maybe never asked . . . More than you can digest? No doubt. More than you want? No way. Fearnley-Whittingstall's down-in-the-trenches humor and tone of earthy authority keep you coming back for another slice.‚Au‚AiForbes ‚AuHis big, impressive meat book . . . has now been Americanized . . . Fearnley-Whittingstall is passionate and opinionated but not heavy-handed, and his sense of humor is evident throughout . . . A good companion to Fergus Henderson's The Whole Beast, this unique title will be important as both a reference and a cookbook.‚Au‚AiLibrary Journal Starred Review‚AuHugh Fearnley-Whittingstall believes that the animals we eat deserve respect, both for their sake and ours.‚Au ‚AiConde Nast Traveler

What is a roast? Much more than a hunk of meat cooked in a certain way. A roast may conjure up images of vast joints of beef turning on spits in front of huge fires, of venison poached from under the gamekeeper s nose, of medieval boards groaning under the weight of peacocks, swans and sucking pigs, of Christmas geese and turkeys, and of convivial Sunday lunch. In short, a roast is an idea of plenty, of feasting, and of occasion.

Acclaimed cook and food historian Laura Mason presents delicious beef, lamb, pork and chicken roasts, plus traditional recipes for turkey, goose, duck, game birds, rabbit and hare, and venison too. All the best accompaniments and vegetable dishes are included, from essential Yorkshire puddings and roast potatoes to sauces and stuffings.

Everything you need to know about sourcing, preparing and roasting quality meat is explained and most importantly, the best part of any roast is often the leftovers, and there are mouth-watering ideas for soups, sandwiches, salads and pics.