Become a master of smoking meat at home with the ultimate introduction to Southern barbecue Plate up your own savory Southern barbecue! This cookbook and smoking guide covers a range of regional styles and teaches you essential techniques for barbecue mastery. Learn how to choose the right tools, work with different cuts of meat, and make brines, marinades, rubs, and sauces that take your barbecue to new heights. Anyone can barbecue—Discover recipes for any skill level or smoker type, so you can bring the famous flavors of the South to your table whether you're a backyard barbecue expert or trying it out for the first time. 8 different regions—Find recipes and cooking advice inspired by Texas Hill Country, Kansas City, St. Louis, Memphis, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Alabama. The science of smoke—Learn how to choose the right wood, use different kinds of smokers, and determine the right smoke times for anything you cook. Pro tips—Discover expert tips and insider secrets for adding special Southern flair to every recipe. Serve incredible, Southern-style barbecue at your next cookout with a complete guide to all the famous flavors.

In The South's Best Butts, food writer and Southern gentleman, Matt Moore, waves away clouds of smoke to give barbecue-lovers a sneak peek into the kitchens and smokehouses of a handful of the Barbecue Belt's most revered pitmasters. He uncovers their tried-and-true techniques gleaned over hours, days, and years toiling by fire and spit, coaxing meltingly tender perfection from the humble pig„the foundation of Southern BBQ. More than a book of recipes, Matt explores how the marriage of meat, cooking method, and sauce varies from place to place based on history and culture, climate, available ingredients and wood, and always the closely-guarded, passed-down secrets followed like scripture. Because no meat plate is complete in the South without "all the fixin's" to round out the meal, Matt cues up patron-sanctioned recipes from every establishment he visits. One thing is for certainƒthis book will change the way you cook, smoke, grill, and eat, but be warned: Your own butt may suffer in the process.

From low-and-slow smoked meats to quick-grilled favorites like pork chops and okra, this is the ultimate guide to Southern-style barbecue and grilling.

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.

After Siu and Heffelfinger, two well-known Vancouver foodies, fell in love with Southern barbecue they started the Memphis Blues Barbeque House. This recipe collection helps home cooks create some of the South's most legendary dishes.