A comprehensive A to Z collection of over 5,000 test kitchen secrets. Over 2,000 of our favorite foods and ingredients defined, over 300 helpful illustrations, over 300 never-fail recipes plus timesaving tips, handy charts, and Southern cooking lore.

Family secrets & test kitchen tips revealed plus other 350 recipes.

The Ultimate Book of BBQ builds on the expertise of Southern Living magazine to create the definitive barbecue and outdoor grilling guide. The book features more than 200 of the highest-rated Southern Living recipes for barbecued meats and sides, plus pit-proven tips, techniques, and secrets for year-round smoking, grilling and barbecuing. With full color, step-by-step photos and mouthwatering recipes, this book includes everything the home cook needs to achieve first-rate backyard barbecue. Proven cooking techniques and equipment, expert advice from award-winning pitmasters, and a Rainy Day BBQ chapter with stovetop, oven, and slow-cooker options make this Southern Living's most definitive book on barbecue.

Pressed for time? Discover the secret to creating tasty dishes with almost no effort at all! Get the most out of your slow cooking with delicious recipes for appetizers, main dishes, sides, plus more! Learn creative uses for your slow cooker in the "Yes, You Can Make That in Your Slow Cooker" chapter. "Slow-Cooker School" shares insider recipe tips from the Southern Living Test Kitchen. Full-color photos of every recipe let you quickly find the perfect dish for any occasion. Step-by-step photos reveal how-to secrets for guaranteed great results.

Published since 1979, Southern Living Annual Recipes provides every single recipe from a year's worth of Southern Living magazine in one complete volume. From large, family-style meals, to easy-to-pull-together weekend brunches, to everyday family-pleasing treats--with gorgeous photographs, step-by-step instructions, and more than a dash of genteel Southern charm and style-the book includes dozens of menus and over 100 step-by-step photographs from the renowned Test Kitchen professionals at Southern Living. This hefty volume serves as a cookbook as well as a reference book. The step-by-step recipes are clear and easy to understand, and each one is accompanied by cook and prep times to help the home cook schedule time perfectly. The book includes attractive full-color photographs as well as over 100 step-by-step photos to make recipes accessible for home cooks on any level. Cookbook exclusives include: "Test Kitchens Notebook"-insider tips from Southern Living Foods Editors and Test Kitchen staffers "Cook's Notes"-reader comments about their favorite recipes Bonus recipes not found in the 2012 magazine, including "Test Kitchen Favorites" Of course Southern Living Annual Recipes is complete with the kind of cozy, Southern distinction that truly draws readers in and has made this annual a much anticipated favorite of Southern readers for over 30 years.

Southern food and food stories are bound together. This book will reflect people, regardless of where they come form, who claim Southern food as their own, whether for a lifetime or a mealtime. People feel deep affection for their local community cookbooks, especially those well-worn volumes that serve as a timestamp of a particular place and time. No other type of recipe collection is more generous, gracious, and welcoming. Before we give you a bite, we Southern cooks have to tell you about what we've made. Southern food is evocative, so our food and food stories are bound together in our communities. A memorable Southern cookbook holds good food and a good read, the equivalent of a brimming recipe box plus the scribbled notes and whispered secrets that cover the tips, advice, and stories that a generous cook shares with family members, friends, and neighbors. These recipes bring all sorts of cooks, recipes, and stories to a common table to bring readers a cookbook filled with good things to eat that have something to say.

Recipes from Southern Living Magazine.