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

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.

Bon Appetit Grilling: The Ultimate Backyard Manual

“Leading the charge into this year’s backyard barbecue season, Bon Appétit has gathered some of its best-regarded grilling recipes and put them in this single volume to create an inclusive resource for anyone with an outdoor fire alight. Beginning with the basics of fire preparation, the book offers considered advice on properly setting up a grill. But barbecue chefs being what they are, virtually every opinion here expressed can readily find its contrary defended by other equally devoted cooks. In conformance with Bon Appétit’s ever-professional approach, not only are basic meats and fish presented, but there are also myriad sauces, salsas, compotes, marinades, compound butters, and other garnishes that add visual allure and harmonizing flavors. Contemporary grilling is almost equally about vegetables, and the book’s vivid photographs pop their colors so intensely that these veggies can look as appealing as meats. –Mark Knoblauch”