This Version 2 is significantly expanded and improved.Turkey – it’s America’s bird, the apple pie of poultry! Most of us relegate turkey to the Thanksgiving or Christmas table only. Try as we might, we at AmazingRibs.com just can’t understand this! Turkey, when properly cooked, is flavorful, moist, versatile and a veritable magnet for flavor. We enjoy it year round. But it is tricky to cook. Slip up and the breasts are as dry as cardboard and the skin is f...

This Version 2 is significantly expanded and improved.We've all experienced BBQ chicken featuring charred skin, burnt sauce, and undercooked meat. No more! Say goodbye to dry, stringy, cardboardy, boring birds and say hello to the most tender, flavorful, juicy chicken you ever tasted.With “Barbecue Chicken Made Easy: Everything You Need To Know About Amazing Chicken On the Grill & Smoker” by Meathead and Brigit Binns, you can master the art of perf...

This Version 2 is significantly expanded and improved.Everything You Need To Know About America’s Favorite Food: Pork Ribs, With Great Tested Recipes, And More Than 100 Photos. Explains the different cuts, different cooking concepts and techniques and science, and recipes for an award-winning rub, sauce, and all the major cuts including smoked, Last Meal Ribs, Competition Ribs, Oven Baked, Chinese-style, and a real McRib Sandwich.Meathead is one of...

“The only book on outdoor cookery you’ll ever need.” —Alton BrownNational BBQ and Grilling Association BBQ Book of the Year 2026Amazon May 2025 Best of the Month PickThe Meathead Method is where barbecue goes next. In the follow-up to his New York Times bestseller Meathead: The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling, BBQ Hall of Famer and founder of AmazingRibs.com...

The Chicago Food Encyclopedia is a far-ranging portrait of an American culinary paradise. Hundreds of entries deliver all of the visionary restauranteurs, Michelin superstars, beloved haunts, and food companies of today and yesterday. More than 100 sumptuous images include thirty full-color photographs that transport readers to dining rooms and food stands across the city. Throughout, a roster of writers, scholars, and industry experts pays tribute to an expansive--and still expanding--foo...

New York Times BestsellerNAMED A BEST COOKBOOK BY Serious Eats • Christopher Kimball • Chicago Tribune • BBC • Wired • Epicurious • Leite's Culinaria • Food & WineFor succulent results every time, nothing is more crucial than understanding the science behind the interaction of food, fire, heat, and smoke. This is the definitive, myth-busting guide to the concepts, methods, equipment, and accessories of barbecue and grilling. The founder and editor of the world's most popula...

For succulent results every time, nothing is more crucial than understanding the science behind the interaction of food, fire, heat, and smoke. This is the definitive guide to the concepts, methods, equipment, and accessories of barbecue and grilling. The founder and editor of the world's most popular BBQ and grilling website, amazingribs.com, Meathead Goldwyn applies the latest research to backyard cooking more than 100 thoroughly tested recipes.With the help of physicist and food...

**A James Beard Award–winning journalist reveals the surprising forces that shape our eating habits“Sax is great company, a writer of real and lasting charm.” —New York Times Book Review**In this eye-opening, witty work of reportage, David Sax uncovers the world of food trends: where they come from, how they grow, and where they end up. Traveling from the South Carolina rice plot of America’s premier grain guru to Chicago’s gluttonous Baconfest, Sax reveals a world...

What was eating them? And vice versa.In What the Great Ate, Matthew and Mark Jacob have cooked up a bountiful sampling of the peculiar culinary likes, dislikes, habits, and attitudes of famous—and often notorious—figures throughout history. Here is food• As code: Benito Mussolini used the phrase “we’re making spaghetti” to inform his wife if he’d be (illegally) dueling later that day.• As superstition: Baseball star Wade Boggs credited his o...

Food Snob n: reference term for the sort of food obsessive for whom the actual joy of eating and cooking is but a side dish to the accumulation of arcane knowledge about these subjectsFrom the author of The United States of Arugula--and coauthor of The Film Snob’s Dictionary and The Rock Snob’s Dictionary--a delectable compendium of food facts, terminology, and famous names that gives ordinary folk the wherewithal to take down the Food Snobs--or ...

The wickedly entertaining, hunger-inducing, behind-the-scenes story of the revolution in American food that has made exotic ingredients, celebrity chefs, rarefied cooking tools, and destination restaurants familiar aspects of our everyday lives.Amazingly enough, just twenty years ago eating sushi was a daring novelty and many Americans had never even heard of salsa. Today, we don't bat an eye at a construction worker dipping a croissant into robust specialty coffee...

*This enchanting follow-up to My Life in France—*the beloved bestselling memoir—chronicles Julia Child’s rise from home cook to the first celebrity chef.“Inspiring and engaging . . . It’s impossible not to love Julia Child.” —The Wall Street Journal**“Delightful. . . . Family photos of the personality-driven star add an intimate quality.”—Tasting TableThe storyof a remarkable woman who found her true voice in midd...