Go beyond charcoal briquettes with these crowd-pleasing recipes for uniquely flavorful open-flame meals. It’s true that the live fire method is the oldest form of cooking in the world. But with fun appliances like kamados, pizza ovens, and rotisseries, what’s old is new again! In Live Fire BBQ and Beyond, you’ll discover how to use an open flame for cooking delicious meat dishes, healthy vegetables, flavor-packed baked goods, and even sweet desserts. Filled with everything you need to become an open-flame aficionado, this handy how-to guide offers up tips, tricks, and techniques for getting delicious flavor and perfectly-cooked meals and snacks using live fire cooking. Make your backyard your kitchen with crowd-pleasing recipes like forty Clove Chicken, Cedar Plank Salmon, Smoky Cinnamon Rolls, Mustard BBQ Vegetable Skewers, and more! You’ll never need, nor want, to cook another meal indoors again!

Hot Dinners Best Cookbooks of 2022 Over 100 seasonal and achievable barbecue recipes celebrating the common thread of live fire cooking in cuisines from around the world. In this homage to live fire traditions, award-winning food writer Helen Graves (aka @foodstories) showcases the very best of barbecue throughout the seasons. Featuring seasonal produce including lots of vegetables alongside meat and fish, Helen also interviews chefs and home cooks from the multiple diaspora communities cooking with live fire in the UK, exploring the techniques that define and unite the way we grill. Helen’s talent for combining evocative writing with bold flavours makes this a truly immersive, practical book that will have even the barbecue novice running for the coals. From chicken wings with tahini and za'atar and pork cheek tacos to grilled baby artichokes with an anchovy dip, a coleslaw for every season and a killer smoked cherry and whisky butterscotch sundae, every recipe in Live Fire is achievable as it is enticing.

Everything Tastes Better When It’s Cooked by Fire Master the art of handling open flames with BBQ extraordinaire Craig Tabor. Cooking by fire offers unparalleled flavors and textures, plus a tremendous sense of accomplishment that you won’t find with gas or electric. Use an offset smoker to keep your meat juicy and fall-apart tender, an open pit grill to enrich the sweet and savory flavors of your dinners, or a wood-fired oven to bake your favorite pizzas and desserts to perfection. Thanks to Craig’s comprehensive step-by-step guides on setup and equipment, along with these 60 mouthwatering recipes, you’ll learn to cook just about anything by fire, including: The King of Texas: Brisket Spicy Korean Beef Short Ribs Veal Chops with Lemon Chive Compound Butter Cowboy Tri-Tip with Chimichurri Filet Mignon with Blue Cheese Butter Garlicky Leg of Lamb Fire-Roasted Cedar Planked Salmon with Herbs Sweet and Sticky Shrimp Skewers So, what are you waiting for? It’s time to light the fire!

Food by Fire, based on the popular blog and Instagram Over the Fire Cooking, covers everything from easy wins for live fire grilling beginners to unique techniques from around the world.

Anyone with half a taste bud knows the difference a good charcoal fire can make. There is no mistaking the effects of its woodsy aromas or the primordial satisfaction of grilling over crackling flames and glowing embers. Now Weber, the inventor of the first covered charcoal grill, presents the definitive book on this unique grilling style, which lately has been surging in popularity. Thoroughly researched and handsomely designed, Webers Charcoal Grilling cookbook holds the most captivating examples of charcoal grilling and authentic barbecue from around the globe. More than 100 triple-tested recipes take readers through the full range of a charcoal grills versatility, including seared steaks, roasted vegetables, smoked fish, barbecued ribs, wood-fired pizzas, and much more. The pages of Webers Charcoal Grilling cookbook dazzle with more than 150 color photographs, one for each recipe, plus many more for illustrating essential grilling techniques and barbecue secrets. Additional photos and stories document a culture woven together by unforgettable personalities, an amazing culinary history, and a passionate appreciation for cooking over a live fire.

“The most important book on cooking over live fire in decades. Life of Fire illuminates it all, from coal beds, to home-built pits (in minutes!) to simple, delicious, recipes and enough whole hog know-how to impress the weekend warriors without intimidating newcomers.”—Andrew Zimmern ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: Saveur One of the few pitmasters still carrying the torch of West Tennessee whole-hog barbecue, Nashville’s Pat Martin has studied and taught this craft for years. Now he reveals all he knows about the art of barbecue and live fire cooking. Through beautiful photography and detailed instruction, the lessons start with how to prepare and feed a fire—what wood to use, how to build a pit or a grill, how to position it to account for the weather—then move into cooking through all the stages of that fire’s life. You’ll sear tomatoes for sandwiches and infuse creamed corn with the flavor of char from the temperamental, adolescent fire. Next, you’ll grill chicken with Alabama white sauce over the grown-up fire, and, of course, you’ll master pit-cooked whole hog, barbecue ribs, turkey, pork belly, and pork shoulder over the smoldering heat of mature coals. Finally, you’ll roast vegetables buried in white ash, and you’ll smoke bacon and country hams in the dying embers of the winter fire. For Pat Martin, grilling, barbecuing, and smoking is a whole lifetime’s worth of practice and pleasure—a life of fire that will transform the way you cook.

Anyone can learn to cook outside over a fire with this dazzling guide to setting up an outdoor kitchen, featuring practical tips and 80 recipes from the award-winning chef of Hartwood in Tulum, Mexico. Chef Eric Werner cooks nearly every dish served at Hartwood over wood fire, without gas or electricity, and when he's not at the restaurant, he's making delicious meals for his family, grilled in his own backyard outdoor kitchen. In this book, Werner shares the secrets to and recipes for simple, unrestricted, foolproof outdoor cooking in a way that reimagines the way you cook at home. Whether you already have a grill or have never cooked outdoors before, The Outdoor Kitchen provides all the tools and inspiration you need. Featuring step-by-step blueprints for constructing your own outdoor kitchen plus variations and modifications for store-bought grills, this handbook shows you how to build a high heat quickly and achieve a perfect sear. The recipes range from grilled meats, fish, and vegetables to marinades, quick pickles, cocktails, and desserts, including: • Grilled Lamb Chops and Burnt Cherries • Rib Eye for One with Onion Jam • Salmon and Almond-Tarragon Salsa Verde • Grilled & Pickled Zucchini • Grilled Romaine with Smoked Fish Dressing • Burnt Strawberry Ice Cream Whether you're cooking for yourself or your family on a weeknight or entertaining guests on the weekend, all the recipes are straightforward, with just a few ingredients and simple methods, for dishes that emphasize fresh flavor and the magic of wood-fired cooking.

James Beard Award Winner A trailblazing chef reinvents the art of cooking over fire. Gloriously inspired recipes push the boundaries of live-fired cuisine in this primal yet sophisticated cookbook introducing the incendiary dishes of South America's biggest culinary star. Chef Francis Mallmann—born in Patagonia and trained in France's top restaurants—abandoned the fussy fine dining scene for the more elemental experience of cooking with fire. But his fans followed, including the world's top food journalists and celebrities, such as Francis Ford Coppola, Madonna, and Ralph Lauren, traveling to Argentina and Uruguay to experience the dashing chef's astonishing—and delicious—wood-fired feats. The seven fires of the title refer to a series of grilling techniques that have been singularly adapted for the home cook. So you can cook Signature Mallmann dishes—like Whole Boneless Ribeye with Chimichuri; Salt-Crusted Striped Bass; Whole Roasted Andean Pumpkin with Mint and Goat Cheese Salad; and desserts such as Dulce de Leche Pancakes—indoors or out in any season. Evocative photographs showcase both the recipes and the exquisite beauty of Mallmann's home turf in Patagonia, Buenos Aires, and rural Uruguay. Seven Fires is a must for any griller ready to explore food's next frontier.

A collection of recipes from the world champion pitmaster features such dishes as coffee-rubbed cowboy steaks and spareribs with mustard sauce, along with tips covering everything from choosing the right equipment to the best way to trim meat.

Cohost of The Chew and celebrated Iron Chef and restaurateur Michael Symon returns to a favorite subject, meat, with his first cookbook focused on barbecue and live-fire grilling, with over 70 recipes inspired by his newest restaurant, Mabel's BBQ, in his hometown of Cleveland. In preparing to open his barbecue restaurant, Mabel's BBQ, Michael Symon enthusiastically sampled smoked meat from across America. The 72 finger-licking, lip-smacking recipes here draw inspiration from his favorites, including dry ribs from Memphis, wet ribs from Nashville, brisket from Texas, pork steak from St. Louis, and burnt ends from Kansas City--to name just a few--as well as the unique and now signature Cleveland-style barbecue he developed to showcase the flavors of his hometown. Michael offers expert guidance on working with different styles of grills and smokers, choosing aromatic woods for smoking, cooking various cuts of meat, and successfully pairing proteins with rubs, sauces, and sides. If you are looking for a new guide to classic American barbecue with the volume turned to high, look no further.