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Barbecue: The History of an American Institution

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The history of barbecue in the United States has until now remained virtually untold. Barbecue has a long, rich history—a history that formerly could be found only through scattered references in old letters, journals, newspapers, diaries, and travel narratives until this book was written.

Americans enjoy reading about barbecue almost as much as they love eating it. Books on the subject cover almost every aspect of the topic: recipes, grilling tips, restaurant guides, pit-building instructions, and catalogs of exotic variants such as Mongolian barbecue and Indian tandoor cooking. Despite this coverage, the history of barbecue in the United States has until now remained virtually untold.
 
Barbecue: The History of an American Institution draws on hundreds of sources to document the evolution of barbecue from its origins among Native Americans to its present status as an icon of American culture. This is the story not just of a dish but of a social institution that helped shape the many regional cultures of the United States. The history begins with British colonists’ adoption of barbecuing techniques from Native Americans in the 16th and 17th centuries, moves to barbecue’s establishment as the preeminent form of public celebration in the 19th century, and is carried through to barbecue’s iconic status today.
 
From the very beginning, barbecues were powerful social magnets, drawing together people from a wide range of classes and geographic backgrounds. Barbecue played a key role in three centuries of American history, both reflecting and influencing the direction of an evolving society. By tracing the story of barbecue from its origins to today, Barbecue: The History of an American Institution traces the very thread of American social history.

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BBQ Sauce Recipe Book: The Ultimate Homemade Barbecue Sauce Cookbook

Making your own homemade sauces in the comfort of your kitchen gives you complete control over what does and doesn’t go into the sauce. This means you won’t have those unnecessary and potentially harmful additives, such as processed sugar, artificial flavorings, and preservatives. Instead, you get a cleaner, healthier, and tastier BBQ sauce that is so much better than those grocery store sauces. Additionally, if you choose to, you can support local farmers by purchasing their produce to use in your homemade barbecue sauces. So, not only are you making delicious and healthy sauces, but you are helping to support others in your community. Homemade BBQ sauces can be a win-win situation. And “BBQ Sauce Recipe Book: The Ultimate Homemade Barbecue Sauce Cookbook” will show you how to get started. Each of the 25 recipes found in this cookbook has been tested for accuracy to ensure they taste amazing. It includes accurate preparation time and lists all the ingredients you will need. The recipes are also written in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step manner so that everyone, no matter their previous cooking experiencing, can successfully recreate the sauces. The recipes you’ll find in this book range from tangy to sweet and even spicy. You’ll find more traditional sauces made with common BBQ sauce ingredients and sauces that are fruit-based. There are also healthier versions of barbecue sauce that have no added sugar and are compliant with the Paleo and Whole 30 diet. Furthermore, thus book includes several tips and tricks to help ensure all your homemade sauces go off without a hitch! So, what are you waiting for? Start reading “BBQ Sauce Recipe Book: The Ultimate Homemade Barbecue Sauce Cookbook” today!

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Competition BBQ Secrets: A Barbecue Instruction Manual for Serious Competitors and Back Yard Cooks Too

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For serious competitors and backyard enthusiasts, Competition BBQ Secrets by Bill Anderson is a winning combination of expertly honed skills and hometown flare. Whether it’s chicken, ribs, butts or brisket, this cookbook has recipes, directives, insights and guidance on how to slow cook competition-quality meats. Better than any restaurant, these competition and backyard secrets will have beginning barbeque aficionados slow-cooking masterpieces in no time at all. In twenty easy to read chapters, with titles such as “Regional Barbecue Sauce Variations,” “BBQ Competitions: What you need to get started,” “Barbecue Recipe Science” and “Collagen, Protein, and Fat,” readers learn the details on exact times and temperatures so there is no room for error—and that’s the point. It is what distinguishes this barbequing cookbook from all others—the author cuts away the bone and fat to get to the meat of the matter.

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Peace, Love, & Barbecue: Recipes, Secrets, Tall Tales, and Outright Lies from the Legends of Barbecue: A Cookbook

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A one-of-a-kind collection of recipes, photographs, and behind-the-scenes stories from legendary pitmaster Mike Mills.

In Peace, Love, & Barbecue – a unique combination of cookbook, memoir, and travelogue – Mike Mills, the unrivalled king of barbecue, shares his passion for America’s favorite cuisine–its intense smoky flavors, its lore and traditions, and its wild cast of characters.

Through conversational anecdotes and black-and-white photographs, readers meet a diverse circle of colleagues and friends and join Mills in a behind-the-scenes tour of the barbecue contest circuit, with stops at some of the best “shrines, shacks, joints, and right-respectable restaurants.”

Also included are prizewinning recipes that have earned Mills his fame and fortune as a barbecue maestro. These 100 recipes will enable anyone with a grill to achieve champion barbecue flavor right in their own backyard. The selection features Mills’ own secret concoctions and treasured family recipes as well as choice contributions from his pitmaster friends, and it covers all manner of barbecued meat and fish, sauces and dry rubs, as well as the sides, soups, and down-home sweets that complete any great barbecue feast.

With its folksy, fun-loving tone and its unique insider’s take on a hugely popular–and deeply American–subject, this volume will appeal to barbecue lovers, food mavens, and cooks of all stripes.

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