 | All-in-one guide for buying grills and smokers, avoiding disasters, recipes (both classic and heart-healthy), more. List Price: $ Price: $15.96   |
 | It's not just sandwiches and paper plates anymore! Sometimes it's not even outdoors. There's no excuse for a humdrum picnic when ideas abound for everything from the types of hampers to use, to the accessories and recipes for the menu (try Lasagna and Citrus-Almond Scones). Why not pitch a tent inside your house, then light a fire in the fireplace and roast hot dogs and marshmallows? Or, if you're in the mood for something more retro, set up a table and chairs on the lawn. Use real china, linen napkins, and silver candlesticks. Bring a teapot and a vase for the flowers. And, be sure to invite children to the playhouse for their own special meal. Whether you're dining al fresco in the woods, on the porch, in the snow, on the range, in a tree house, or on the roof, you'll find out what you need to make your outing truly special. List Price: $ Price: $19.56 |
 | Nothing's nicer than a meal in the country. And these 109 recipes and entertaining ideas, illustrated with 65 spectacular photos, will make the repast even more delightful. Whether you want advice on a simple picnic, romantic candlelight dinner for two, setting a festive table for a holiday crowd, or preparing delicacies like Sweet Cherry Pancakes, Pecan-Crusted Chicken, Ripe Olive Spread, or Creme de Menthe Brownies, you'll find incredible ways to indulge in style. Cook up a summertime seafood supper, put together a well-stocked picnic hamper, and choose from a variety of soups, salads, and sandwiches. Plus: advice on planning the perfect picnic, great suggestions for transporting and storing food, and ideas for lighting up your nighttime banquet. List Price: $ Price: $15.96 |
 | A world of great food prepared on the grill. Grilling has a special place in cooking traditions worldwide. Whether a Punjabi tikka or a Texas barbecue, grilled dishes provide a unique taste. With recipes drawn from every continent, 100 Best Grilling Recipes offers a round-the world tour of different countries and cultures with such inspired recipes as: Argentinian short ribs of beef with chimichurri sauce Vietnamese grilled breast of duck Moroccan barbecued chicken Lemon myrtle shrimp from Oz Texas barbecued brisket Canadian back bacon with maple mustard mop Garlic and ginger butter. Also featured are 35 additional recipes for delicious accompaniments, among them Lebanese cucumber and mint salad, and double bourbon barbecue sauce. With a kitchen or backyard grill, 100 Best Grilling Recipes provides a sampling of the world's most delectable grilled dishes along with a tempting array of international accompaniments. List Price: $ Price: $13.56 |
 | They say that baseball is the all-American pastime, but in fact outdoor cooking is the hottest culinary trend in the United States today. Karen Adler, publisher of Pig Out Publications, has brought us the best little series of cookbooks. In Barbecue, which is essentially slow-cooking over low heat, recipes range from down-home fare, like ribs, brisket, chicken and pork shoulder, to more sophisticated dishes, like Golden Apple-Smoked Turkey Breast, Honey-Glazed Acorn Squash, Smoked Goat Cheese with Garden Tomato and Smoked Rainbow Trout with Pistachio Butter. List Price: $ Price: $3.46 |
 | The secrets to successful grilling are all out in this sizzling new cookbook for anyone who's passionate about food cooked over fire. This bold offering of delicious variety takes you from starters to desserts and from New Orleans to New Zealand, offering the best of all things seared, skewered, or blackened. More than 80 recipes will satisfy every culinary mood: The juicy--Peaches wrapped in prosciutto The oozing--Cambozola quesadillas The fresh--Chicory, walnut, and pear salad The nostalgic--the classic burger The fiery--Pepper steak with mustard brandy cream Also included are tips for marinating, food safety and hygiene, equipment needed, and handy hints. A feast of flavors from the same authors who brought you Juice!, Ice Cream, and Soup!. List Price: $ Price: $10.36 |
 | A guided tour through the wacky world of competitive barbecuing, The Grill of Victory introduces the fascinating people who cook for love, trophies, and all-important contest points. The book leads readers through Galax, Virginia’s “Smoke on the Mountain” competition, explaining how teams are organized; types of grills used, from rusty barrels to elaborate luxury models; the rules of competition (and how they’re sometimes broken); what judges are looking for; and how each competition fits into the Memphis in May barbecue competition circuit. Tips and tricks--including ways to spice up store-bought barbecue sauce--and winners' secrets to great grilling techniques, rubs, and sauces turn backyard chefs into BBQ champs. List Price: $ Price: $11.86 |
 | People cook over an open flame the world round, but Americans do it more often and better. Grilling is the essential American culinary art, a glorious birthright celebrated everyday from coast to coast. Its a passion, a party, a way to cook that wont let you call it a chore. Its about playing with fire under an open sky, wielding a mean spatula in one hand, a cool drink in the other. Most of all, its a surefire means to get yourself from here to a decent meal, having loads of fun along the way. Make that a great meal: In more than 300 recipes, Cheryl and Bill Jamison reveal the tremendous variety of terrific flavors that can come from the primal encounter of food and flame. Authors of the pioneering and bestselling Smoke & Spice, which has shown a generation of backyard chefs how to cook wood-smoked barbecue, the Jamisons now aim their expert sights on grilling, the most popular kind of outdoor cooking. Based on years of testing, the Jamisons argue for a back-to-basics, high heat, open air, open flame approach, a sensual and elemental way to grill that doesnt require equipment with more bells and whistles than the Queen Mary. Though todays grill might be fashioned to roast, bake, or smoke, even boil, steam, and saut these pages remind us that it was, happily for us, made to grill. The Jamisons open up a road map that will guide the griller beyond steaks, burgers, and hot dogs, but they invite us, in chapters called Serious Steaks and Hot Burgers and Haute Dogs, to delay our departure and explore the depths of those timeless favorites. A Pale Ale Porterhouse, a Basil and Sage T-Bone, A Crunchy Kraut Dog, and more make the decision fully worth our while. Is chicken your choice on your grill grate? Then why not ramble out west, for Hearty Ranch Chicken Halves, or try a Southern-style Cinnamon Chicken with Crunchy Cashew Relish? For fans of seafood, the Jamisons serve up oceans(and lakes and streams) full of tasty fish and shellfish, from one coasts Boston Striper to the others San Francisco Sole. Out on the horizon, Born to Grill uncovers alluring new terrain. Salads, pastas, and soups infused with the smoky taste of flame-kissed ingredients; splendid pizzas and tortilla dishes prepared on the grill; vegetables, juicy and crisp, in main dishes and sides; fruits and desserts for a finger lickin finish-all these and more make the grillers domain bigger and more delectable than its ever been. In Born to Grill, Cheryl and Bill Jamison celebrate the classic repertoire of the American grill. With down-to-earth wit, expertise you can take to the bank, and, above all, an abundant culinary imagination, they add mightily to it. Theyll make you feel, if you dont already, downright lucky you, too, were born to grill. List Price: $ Price: $9.98 |
 | 2004 James Beard Award Winner for Tools & Techniques Steven Raichlen, a national barbecue treasure and author of The Barbecue! Bible!, How to Grill, and other books in the Barbecue! Bible! Series, with 1.3 million copies in print, embarks on a quest to find the soul of American barbecue, from barbecue-belt classics--Lone Star Brisket, Lexington Pulled Pork, K.C. Pepper Rub, Tennessee Mop Sauce--to the grilling genius of backyards, tailgate parties, competitions, and local restaurants. In 425 recipes covering every state as well as Canada and Puerto Rico, BBQ USA celebrates the best of regional live-fire cooking. Finger-lickin' or highfalutin'; smoked, rubbed, mopped, or pulled; cooked in minutes or slaved over all through the night, American barbecue is where fire meets obsession. There's grill-crazy California, where everything gets fired up--dates, Caesar salad, lamb shanks, mussels. Latin-influenced Florida, with its Chimichurri Game Hens and Mojo-Marinated Pork on Sugar Cane. Maple syrup flavors the grilled fare of Vermont; Wisconsin throws its kielbasa over the coals; Georgia barbecues Vidalias; and Hawaii makes its pineapples sing. Accompanying the recipes are hundreds of tips, techniques, sidebars, and pit stops. It's a coast-to-coast extravaganza, from soup (grilled, chilled, and served in shooters) to nuts (yes, barbecued peanuts, from Kentucky). List Price: $ Price: $13.56 |
 | From the leader in smoker oven production for more than 40 years comes an unbeatable smoked foods cookbook, which includes nearly 200 of the best recipes collected from creative cooks who have used these smokers for years. With recipes for jerk chicken wings, smoked leg of lamb, whiskey onion marmalade, Florida smokehouse prawns, and much, much more, this cookbook is perfect for novice smokers and experienced barbecuers. List Price: $ Price: $11.96 |