Barbecue America

Barbecue America makes a pilgrimage in search of America's best barbecue. This is an information and visual-rich cookbook that you will most definitely enjoy cooking with and reading. 

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Format: Hardcover with dust jacket, 216 pages. 

Copyright: 1999 

Publisher: Time-Life Books 

Author: Rick Browne and Jack Bettridge 

ISBN: 9780737000214

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Description: So much smoke wafts across the horizon that it must be some kind of industrial inferno blazing out of control. But on closer inspection, this is good smoke -- friendly fire -- the kind of fumes put off when 320 teams of barbecue berserkers take over three huge parking lots and set their estimable skills to "cooking up,"as the saying goes, "everything but road kill." 

This is a scene that takes place somewhere in America every weekend. Thousands gather to celebrate the country's greatest contribution to rile culinary world. This is barbecue -- America's oldest food fad rekindled. Today, the heartland is burning with the fires of gastronomic disciples who smoke up a storm at huge competitive cookoffs, held from the mountains of the Carolinas to the shores of California. What used to be an occasional backyard pastime is now the passion of an army of hellbent hobbyists. This is their country club membership, their yacht, and their Porsche, all rolled into one. 

Barbecue America documents some of the biggest and best barbecue contests in the country: the American Royal in Kansas City; Memphis in May on the banks of the Mississippi; the Jack Daniel's Invitational down in "the Hollow"'in Tennessee; and the Ft. Bragg Salmon Festival in California, the largest of its kind anywhere. Rick Browne and Jack Bertridge also take a journey into the real "heart" of Texas—brisket country -- documenting a day in the life of four of the state's most accomplished pitmasters. 

Not just a cookbook but a celebration of a grass-roots art form reborn. Barbecue America is a story of characters as much as cooking, of milieu more than method. This is a book for aficionados and the uninitiated alike. It aims to serve as a primer for pitiable souls inexperienced in the flavor and the fun of real "Q"and, at the same-time, is a family album for those whose lives are played out in smoke. 

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Condition: Good condition. 

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