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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.

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

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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Hot and Hip Grilling Secrets: A Fresh Look at Cooking with Fire

A Fresh Look at Cooking with Fire

What’s the secret to delicious, fast, and healthy cooking? Matches and a grill.

If you think grilling is just for burgers and hot dogs, think again. Hot & Hip Grilling Secrets is the exciting new cookbook that shows you how much more your grill can do, and how easy and fun it is to cook with fire. Prepare for the week by grilling up flavorful meat and veggies for salads and wraps. Whip up a healthy weeknight stir fry your whole family will love. Host a party without spending the whole day in the kitchen! You won’t believe how many delicious appetizers, entrees, sides, and even desserts you can make on the grill:

Tandoori chicken kabobs with grilled tomatoes

Grilled Mandarin slaw with peanuts and shrimp

Salmon filet grilled on a cedar plank with cherry salsa

Ribeye steak with a red rooibos tea rub

Grilled zucchini nachos

Toasted granola peach crisp

And many more!

Hot & Hip Grilling Secrets also gives readers a crash course on the tools and techniques that make grilling easier without breaking the bank, plus different types of grilling for all lifestyles and budgets. The book also features gorgeous full-color photographs sure to get you fired up for your new favorite way to cook!

Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Good Books and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of cookbooks, including books on juicing, grilling, baking, frying, home brewing and winemaking, slow cookers, and cast iron cooking. We’ve been successful with books on gluten-free cooking, vegetarian and vegan cooking, paleo, raw foods, and more. Our list includes French cooking, Swedish cooking, Austrian and German cooking, Cajun cooking, as well as books on jerky, canning and preserving, peanut butter, meatballs, oil and vinegar, bone broth, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

BBQ Secrets Deluxe: The Very Best Recipes, Tips & Tricks from a Barbecue Champion

Featuring mouth-watering recipes, insider stories and succulent photographs, Barbecue Secrets DELUXE! The Very Best Recipes, Tips & Tricks from a Barbecue Champion is the ultimate guide to grilling, plank-cooking and Southern-style barbecue. A must-have for novice grillers and barbecue experts alike, Barbecue Secrets DELUXE! includes not only the best recipes from the best-selling books Barbecue Secrets and Planking Secrets but 50 new recipes by international barbecue champion Rockin’ Ronnie Shewchuk. It features: Grilling, planking and barbecue recipes, cooking charts and tables, equipment guidelines, grilling history, secret tips and techniques, music playlists, and drink recipes.

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All Fired Up: Smokin’ hot BBQ secrets from the South’s best pitmasters


In the South, barbecue is king. Barbecue grills are ubiquitous fixtures in backyards across the region, and every Southerner looks forward to the “firing-up” season. This book is a follow up to the best-selling Big Book of BBQ and is filled with expert techniques and know-how enables every cook to start grilling like an award-winning pit master in his own backyard.

  • As a professional pit master, Troy Black has traveled the country competing in- and often willing– professional barbecue contests and teaching the art and techniques of low and slow smoking. With full-color “how to grill” photos, this book shares Troy’s secrets that are guaranteed to elevate basic backyard fare to gourmet grill status. Whether you prefer charcoal grilling or gas grilling, this book has it all.
  • In addition to techniques, Troy also shares his top-secret, all time best, tried-and-true recipes that have won him countless awards nationwide. These include his favorite sauces and rubs that give his recipes uniquely scrumptious flavors not to be found in any barbecue joint– anywhere!
  • Special features throughout the book make it an indispensable grilling guide: Take it from Troy is a mini-forum for tips and insightful reflections gleaned from his years as a professional pit master; for busy weeknights when time is of the essence, cooks will appreciate Troy’s Take a Shortcut suggestions; for make-ahead ideas, On ‘Cue ensures a barbecue meal that’s perfectly planned from start to finish.

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  • Used Book in Good Condition