10 Best Bbq Book In The World
Updated on: December 2023
Best Bbq Book In The World in 2023
Wicked Good Barbecue: Fearless Recipes From Two Damn Yankees Who have Won the Biggest, Baddest BBQ Competition in the World
Steak: One Man's Search for the World's Tastiest Piece of Beef
Imitation in Death
Last Mayor Box Set: The Complete Post Apocalyptic Series - Books 1-9
Big Book of BBQ: Recipes and Revelations from the Barbecue Belt
Smokin' Hot in the South: New Grilling Recipes from the Winningest Woman in Barbecue (Volume 2) (Melissa Cookston)
Around the World in 80 Food Trucks (Lonely Planet)
Low & Slow: Master the Art of Barbecue in 5 Easy Lessons
Texas BBQ (Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture)
50 Hot Sauce Recipes: Easy hot sauce recipes you can make at home from scratch with fresh or dried peppers
Happy Mother's Day to My Favorite (And Best) Cooking Teacher
Happy Mother's Day to My Favorite (And Best) Cooking Teacher
Let's start from the top. It's Mom who offers you a chance to help stir the cake batter, and Mom who gives you a taste of the frosting before it goes on the cake. When she sees your eyes light up as she cooks, it's Mom who buys you your first cookbook and then helps you through the simplest of recipes. It's Mom who watches anxiously as you begin your first solo effort, and then mops up the tears if the venture goes awry. Or heaps on lavish praise if the venture is a success - much more praise than you know you deserve, but which you relish nonetheless.
My Mom even introduced me to the most challenging aspect of haute cuisine - that of tracking down one's ingredients. During weekly grocery shopping, each of us little monsters (there were five of us) would receive a portion of her shopping list. We were unleashed upon that hapless supermarket en masse, food buyers on a mission. We learned subtle differences between similar food products, like, what's the difference between evaporated and condensed milk? (Short answer: A heck of a lot of sugar!)
She even launched me on my search for the perfect salad dressing recipe. I remember poring over her big McCall's cook book, trying to figure out the difference between French and Italian dressing. And then finally discovering that you have to experiment, till you find the right combination to unlock your taste buds.
My mom bought me my first cookbook - a Betty Crocker cookbook for kids - which I enjoyed so much that I brought it to school with me. I read it at recess. I read it in the halls. I even read it during class - and this was in first grade, too - my teacher was not amused at all with my new obsession, I should mention.
I have a vivid memory of several group cooking classes where my mom taught us to bake with yeast. Yes - the woman actually taught this to a group of five young children. It was huge for me - we learned to bake cinnamon rolls, which were delicious. I didn't realize how big a deal this was until much later in life, when I noticed that every time I brought up the topic of baking with yeast, all of my friends would turn pale or clutch their heads and scream. Baking with yeast is a project that inspires terror in many people, no matter how gung-ho they are about cooking. Baking is basically chemistry with food involved, but when you add microorganisms, you're venturing into microbiology ... aaagghhh ... although I do not bake all that much with yeast right now, I know that if I want to, I can. And I can make a decent go of it. Thank you, Mom!
Happy Mother's Day to My Favorite (And Best) Cooking Teacher! My husband, who has golden taste buds, likes to describe me as a "good cook," which amazes me. I can assure you that any skill I have in this area at all, I owe to my Mom. Thanks so much, Mom, and I hope you enjoy your special day. I hope I didn't leave too many piles of flour in the kitchen...
