Smoke & spice Cooking with smoke, the real way to barbecue

Cheryl Alters Jamison

Book - 2014

Cheryl and Bill Jamison's path-breaking Smoke and Spice was the first, and remains by far the best-selling, book on real barbecue--slow-cooking over smoke--for home cooks. This new and expanded edition appears on the twentieth anniversary of the classic book's first edition. It has two key features. First, there are 50 new recipes, including meat dishes, such as Molasses-Brined Pork Butt, Lemon-Coriander Chicken, and Brisket Frito Pie, as well as sauces, sides, and desserts, like Peppery Sweet Onion Sauce, Cornbread Fritters, and Chipotle Cherry Cobbler. Second, it now contains cover- to-cover color photography and page design. The photographs show details of backyard-smoking techniques, delectable views of finished foods from the... smoker, and atmospheric shots of barbecue joints and of the legendary pitmasters who cook in them. With 450 recipes from each of the U.S.'s best barbecue regions, each recipe expertly perfected and fine-tuned by the Jamisons, amusing anecdotes and tall tales from the colorful world of 'Q, and take-it-to-the-bank advice on how to use any kind of smoker (as well as how to smoke-cook on a conventional grill), this expanded and richly photographed new edition is certain to usher in a new generation of backyard cooks devoted to real barbecue.

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Subjects
Genres
Cookbooks
Published
Boston, Massachusetts : The Harvard Common Press c2014.
Language
English
Main Author
Cheryl Alters Jamison (-)
Other Authors
Bill Jamison (-)
Edition
Revised edition ; Third edition
Item Description
Includes index.
Physical Description
x, 502 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN
9781558328365
  • Honest-to-goodness barbecue. The secrets of success
  • Fuels and tools
  • Indoor stovetop smoking
  • Smoking slow and low. Spicing up your life
  • Pork you can pull apart
  • Bodacious beef
  • Lean and mean meats
  • Fowl play
  • Fishing for compliments
  • Garden of eatin'
  • Smoke-scented salads, pastas, and pizzas
  • While you wait
  • Great accomplishments from indoors. Barbecue sauces
  • Traditional side dishes and breads
  • Side-dish salads and relishes
  • Down-home desserts
  • Cool and cheery drinks.
Review by Booklist Review

In the world of serious barbecue cooks, low and slow is the mantra that produces the most succulent results. A backyard grill generates wonderful grilled food, but a smoker yields meats with deep flavor and incomparable tenderness. Updating their much-admired 2003 edition, the Jamisons demonstrate again their complete mastery of all things barbecue. They describe equipment alternatives currently available and offer instructions for turning the ubiquitous kettle grill into an acceptable smoker. Multiple factors affect flavor and texture in the art of smoking, and the Jamisons itemize the prevalent kinds of wood for smoking. Although North American barbecue in all its variations has the most cachet, Chinese, Yucatecan, and other cultures have their own smoking traditions, which the Jamisons describe. Vegetables and salads make use of smoking techniques, and the adventurous can prepare even a smoked version of Swiss raclette. This practical book is bound to be popular wherever there are backyard chefs.--Knoblauch, Mark Copyright 2010 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.