Mixing elegance with an island attitude, Louie's Backyard is an award-winning Key West, Florida restaurant famous for its fine food and relaxed oceanfront ambience, and what marks the food at Louie's backyard is innovation. Chef Doug Shook likes to create new variations daily. "Inventing is the joy of cooking," he says, which means the recipes in The Louie's Backyard Cookbook are the best of many recipes Shook has created over the years. They are for people who enjoy the entire process of creating a meal, from procuring the ingredients to making a handsome presentation of a finished dish. In this cookbook, you’ll discover delicious dishes such as: Conch Fritters, Key Lime Pie, Jerk-Rubbed Free-Range Chicken Breast, Sauteed Key West Shrimp with Bacon and Stone-Ground Grits, Conch Chowder, and more! The Louie's Backyard Cookbook contains not only 150 of Chef Shook's most creative recipes, but takes you behind the scenes through photos and stories to learn about the restaurant and the Key West culture that lures people with its beauty and keeps them with its liberty. This cookbook is the next best thing to experiencing the islands themselves!

Mixing elegance with an island attitude, Louie's Backyard is an award-winning Key West, Florida restaurant famous for its fine food and relaxed oceanfront ambience, and what marks the food at Louie's backyard is innovation. Chef Doug Shook likes to create new variations daily. "Inventing is the joy of cooking," he says, which means the recipes in The Louie's Backyard Cookbook are the best of many recipes Shook has created over the years. They are for people who enjoy the entire process of creating a meal, from procuring the ingredients to making a handsome presentation of a finished dish. In this cookbook, you’ll discover delicious dishes such as: Conch Fritters, Key Lime Pie, Jerk-Rubbed Free-Range Chicken Breast, Sauteed Key West Shrimp with Bacon and Stone-Ground Grits, Conch Chowder, and more! The Louie's Backyard Cookbook contains not only 150 of Chef Shook's most creative recipes, but takes you behind the scenes through photos and stories to learn about the restaurant and the Key West culture that lures people with its beauty and keeps them with its liberty. This cookbook is the next best thing to experiencing the islands themselves!

The exquisite menu at The Old Post Office Restaurant on Edisto Island, SC, has garnered this one-of-a-kind establishment legions of fans from around the country. It has been written up in the New York Times, Travel and Leisure, USA Today, Wine Spectator and Gourmet. This exciting new cookbook is part of the Roadfood Cookbook Series by Jane and Michael Stern, two of the most popular and successful food writers in America. Like a visit to this historic Southern island (less than an hour from Charleston), Lowcountry Cooking from The Old Post Office Restaurant contains more than 150 favorite recipes for Southern dishes with a classical twist, such as Fussed-Over Pork Chop, P.B.'s Ultimate Filet Mignon, Coca Cola Cake, and Key Lime Mousse. It includes an 8-page color insert. Chef Philip Bardin says, "Breads and desserts are prepared daily and all of the produce and seafood are local and the freshest available in the area. Our stone-ground grits - milled to our specifications - have been a specialty since 1988." Previous Roadfood cookbooks include: Blue Willow Inn Cookbook (1-55853-991-3), El Charo Cookbook (1-55853-992-1), Durgin-Park Cookbook (1-4016-0028-X), Harry Carey's Cookbook (1-4016-0095-6), Louie's Backyard Cookbook (1-4016-0038-7), Carbone's Cookbook (1-4016-0122-7), and The Famous Dutch Kitchen Restaurant Cookbook (1-4016-0138-3).

From Margaritas to Tropical Coffee Cake to Snapper Rangoon—more than 200 Florida Keys culinary delights from the James Beard Award winner. The sun-drenched Florida Keys are a unique crossroads where Caribbean, European, and American cultures and cuisines meet. In The Flavors of the Florida Keys, Linda Gassenheimer brings the islands to your kitchen with over two hundred recipes that range from the humble (Bahamian Conch Chowder) to the sophisticated (Crab Cakes with Pommery Mustard Sauce) to the comforting (Sweet Potato Bisque) to the unusual (Heavenly Hogfish). In her quest for the best of the Keys’ culinary traditions, Gassenheimer has been everywhere from waterfront beach shacks to resort dining rooms, while collecting the stories of the men and women behind the recipes—the eccentric artists and writers, the local fishermen, and the bon vivants captured by the magical atmosphere of the region. Your dinner companions include chef Doug Shook from acclaimed Louie’s Backyard, Elena Spottswood, a member of one of the original Conch families, who shares her recipe for a perfect Cuban Mojito, and Wolfgang Birk, whose Ocean Bounty serves up an abundance of superlative seafood from the surrounding seas. Travel the Keys with Gassenheimer’s “highly recommended” book by your side, and discover its hidden treasures—perfect as a stove-side companion for bringing the sunlight and spirit of the Keys to your own dining table, whether it be for cocktails, appetizers, entrees, side dishes, salads, sandwiches, soups, or desserts (Library Journal).

National bestselling author Lucy Burdette returns to Key West for another delectable dish of secrets, intrigue, and murder. Peace and quiet are hard to find in bustling Key West, so Hayley Snow, food critic for Key Zest magazine, is taking the afternoon off for a tranquil lunch with a friend outside of town. As they are enjoying the wild beach and the lunch, she realizes that her husband Nathan’s dog, Ziggy, has disappeared. She follows his barking, to find him furiously digging at a shallow grave with a man’s body in it. Davis Jager, a local birdwatcher, identifies him as GG Garcia, a rabble-rousing Key West local and developer. Garcia was famous for over-development on the fragile Keys, womanizing, and refusing to follow city rules—so it’s no wonder he had a few enemies. When Davis is attacked in the parking lot of a local restaurant after talking to Hayley and her dear friend, the octogenarian Miss Gloria, Hayley is slowly but surely drawn into the case. Hayley’s mother, Janet, has been hired to cater GG’s memorial service reception at the local Woman’s Club, using recipes from their vintage Key West cookbook—and Hayley and Miss Gloria sign on to work with her, hoping to cook up some clues by observing the mourners. But the real clues appear when Hayley begins to study the old cookbook, as whispers of old secrets come to life, dragging the past into the present—with murderous results.

This book is all about the road trip I took with my family; my wife Yvette, son Teigan and daughter Jessica (15 and 12 respectively at the time of our travels) through the southern states of America in the Autumn (Fall) of September and October 2014. We travelled 5986.7km for the sake of BBQ "research", determined to experience the Temples of BBQ.We had made several trips to Kansas City previously, researching and learning from the master pitmasters before establishing our restaurant, Big Boy BBQ in Melbourne. This time however, our aim was to develop an understanding and appreciation of the different regions of American BBQ.We weren't seeking the latest and greatest, not the obscure nor the mainstream, but rather searching out the Temples of BBQ. The BBQ joints where the pitmasters are like preachers with their own congregation of followers. We started our pilgrimage in Texas, where we travelled over six days, visited 15 BBQ joints and revelled in the Holy Trinity of Texas BBQ. We moved through Arkansas to Tennessee, where we enjoyed pulled pork sandwiches with bright yellow slaw. Next to Alabama, then Georgia and the Carolinas, South and North, where we received a holy whole hog baptism. We returned our car in Virginia, then flew to New York and on to Kansas City for burnt ends and ribs that reminded us of why we started our BBQ journey in the first place.