It wasn’t that long ago that if you wanted to learn how to barbecue—and I mean really barbecue, from whole hog smoking to melt-in-your-mouth brisket—you’d have to apprentice with a pitmaster. That closely guarded culinary art has come into the limelight in the past decade or so though, and thankfully the aspiring grill master has plenty of resources at their disposal.
Among those books written about barbecue, few are better than Franklin Smoke. Written by legendary pitmaster Aaron Franklin, it’s an all-in-one roadmap to your smoked and grilled meat dreams. From building a backyard fire to taming and managing each stage of that fire’s life, Franklin proposes a radically different way of understanding barbecue: Thinking of fire as an ingredient, not just as a cooking medium. Follow his directions carefully, and you might just find yourself reconnecting to the primal beauty and wonder of cooking your meats over an open fire.
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