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America’s Best BBQ: 100 Recipes from America’s Best Smokehouses, Pits, Shacks, Rib Joints, Roadhouses, and Restaurants

Hungry for something different? Then try America’s Best BBQ. Here, two of the world’s top barbecue experts present their favorite barbecue recipes from across America.

Only Ardie and Paul, the go-to sources on barbecue, can earn the trust–and the secret recipes–from some of the nation’s barbecue legends.

Tasty sides include tips, tricks, techniques, fun memorabilia, full-color photos, and firsthand recollections of tales from the pits culled from over a century of combined barbecue experience.

With more than 100 recipes for mouthwatering starters, moist and flavorful meats, classic side dishes, sauces and rubs, and decadent desserts, this book should come with its own wet-nap.

* Whether it’s spicy or sweet, Texas or Memphis, this is the best collection of American barbecue recipes.

* Ardie’s BBQ alter ego, Remus Powers, PhB, has earned profiles in many barbecue books, tons of magazines, and more than a few national newspapers. He’s graced the Food Network and PBS, appearing in various documentaries on ‘cue and great American cuisine.

* Paul has appeared on The Today Show, Discovery Channel, CBS This Morning, Talk Soup, and Anthony Bourdain’s A Cook’s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal. He was also featured in AARP’s Modern Maturity Magazine, Saveur, and The Calgary Herald, and he has written articles for Food and Wine, Fine Cooking, and Chili Pepper magazine.

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Roadfood: The Coast-to-Coast Guide to 900 of the Best Barbecue Joints, Lobster Shacks, Ice Cream Parlors, Highway Diners, and Much, Much More, now in its 9th edition

“The bible for motorists seeking mouthwatering barbecue or homemade pie.” —USA Today

For the road warriors and armchair epicures, the updated ninth edition of Roadfood is your indispensable guide to more than 900 of America’s best local eateries—now with more than 200 completely new listings.

Explore the affordable, enjoyable, one-of-a-kind dining destinations along America’s roadways with this indispensable guide. In this fully revised edition, Jane and Michael Stern introduce the Roadfood Honor Roll—a tip sheet to the 100 must-visit stops—just in time for your next roadtrip, no matter what state you’re driving through. With up-to-date information on restaurants’ hours of operation, phone numbers, and websites, you will never go hungry on the road or get lost finding the best off-the-highway gems.

North Carolina’s Roadside Eateries: A Traveler’s Guide to Local Restaurants, Diners, and Barbecue Joints (Southern Gateways Guides)

Want to eat like the locals? D. G. Martin has spent years traveling the major roadways of North Carolina, on the lookout for community, local history, and, of course, a good home-cooked meal. Here D. G. is your personal tour guide to more than 100 notable local roadway haunts that serve not only as places to eat but also as fixtures of their communities.

*Features locally owned and time-tested community favorites
*Covers a range of food tastes from BBQ joints and country kitchens to Mexican restaurants and Greek diners
*Introduces diners to the restaurant owners and locals who make these places unique
*Includes current contact information, hours, directions
*Features nearby points of interest to explore after eating

This handy reference to good food just off North Carolina’s interstates should find a spot in every Tar Heel traveler’s glove compartment.

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BBQ Joints: Stories and Secret Recipes from the Barbeque Belt

In Barbecue Joints, travel the highways and byways with a true barbecue aficionado, David Gelin, and share the scrumptious odors of hickory pits and the tangy sauces and rubs that make barbecue the signature dish of the South. Look closely and you will recognize a South where barbecue is a kind of national dish and the people who cook and serve it are, well, national heroes. This book is not just about the joints, but even more so about the good folks who are the heart and soul of them. Barbecue Joints is more than a heartfelt tale of the colorful characters that run them-it also serves as a travel guide as well as a how-to on barbecue, filled with recipes as well as instruction on building a BBQ pit of your very own!

Recipes Include:

Patricia Newton’s Sweet Potato Pie

Abe’s Cole Slaw

Duard Dockal’s Beans

Scott’s BBQ Hot-Sauce

Elvis’s Pound Cake

Ricky William’s Hot Dog Chil

S.W. Buck’s Macaroni & Cheese

Katy Garner’s Hog Heaven Fruit Cobbler

Shack by the Tracks Butter Scotch Squares

Author Biography: David Howard Gelin was born in New York and raised outside of Washington, D.C. Fate, college, and mild winters brought him to the South. Along with his aptly named Buddy, an animal rescue dog slated for that big doghouse in the sky, they are most at home on the open road. They hope to see you out there.