Low and slow lives here. Smoke-infused, patience-requiring meats for your BBQ rig.
As we continue a look at the basics of barbecue, we come to the important choices of what kind of smoker to use and what kind of meat to cook. With the profusion of smokers on the market today, the choice can be daunting, so we’ll talk you through the major types, as well as…
Barbecue is perhaps the iconic American form of cooking. We borrowed everything else, but the various regional styles of BBQ in America are ours. Today, the interest in BBQ is growing like never before, with local competitions springing up all over and slow-cooked, smoked meats making their way from hard-to-find back-woods shacks into manicured suburban…
Bacon goes well with almost anything. It’s used in everything from sandwiches to chocolate—we haven’t found anything this versatile meat can’t do! The art of curing meat dates from well before the dawn of refrigeration, all the way back to ancient civilizations as a way to preserve meat for long periods of time. Since those…
Have you ever been to a Brazilian churrasco restaurant? It’s basically a meat eater’s dream. You sit down and servers come to your table with sizzling hot cuts of grilled meats, each impaled on sword-like skewers and carved fresh at your table. And they bring you as much as you want. Never in my life…
Authenticity is not actually the greatest good in cooking. In fact, it is inauthenticity that breeds innovation and variation in the culinary landscape, and it has done great things. For instance: almost none of the “Chinese” food that what we eat in America is authentically Chinese. The chimichanga is not authentically Mexican, nor is the…
There are few culinary joys more pure and simple than the first bite of a perfectly cooked, perfectly seasoned steak. And if the steak was kissed by flames as it cooked, imparting it with fiery, smoky flavor, all the better. But cooking steaks perfectly on a grill is not as intuitive as we’d like it…
