From Kentucky’s beloved burgoo to Virginia’s Brunswick stew to cowboy chili, America has a long history with soups cooked over live fire. And yet, mention grilling soup to nearly anyone, and they’ll look at you like you’ve ingested too much smoke—and not necessarily the kind generated by hardwoods.
2018 may have been fraught with political and financial mayhem, but it was a banner year for barbecue. It was a year of new grills, new live-fire cooking techniques, and some terrific new barbecue restaurants.
A new year already? It seems like just last week Steven was writing his 2018 trends blog. Many of the predictions came true—Fusion ‘Que, Philanthro Que, Hasselback potatoes. Other trends—like thin steaks and salt slab desserts are still a work in progress.
Southside Market & Barbeque has become a paragon of sausage making, centered around the idea that everything goes with sausage. As they will proudly tell you: “We make Sausage, and stuff that goes with Sausage.” For them, sausage is center of the recipe, not just a side item.
Sure, you could give that live-fire cooking-obsessed special person in your life another piece of grill gear. Or a cookbook or barbecue seasonings or a gift certificate to a favorite barbecue joint.
When setting out to smoke your first brisket, you contemplated the same question all barbecuers have faced: “225 degrees for 10 hours in the smoker?? How am I going to stay sane and still monitor the cooking temp all day??”
One of the questions we often get from our readers is “Where can I buy a really great steak online?” We’ve found the answer for you: Crowd Cow. Since 2015, they have worked to bring you healthy, high-quality meat from independent farms, which you can buy online. You get the exact cuts and quantity you want, delivered straight to your door.
Project Smoke is the How to Grill of smoking, both a complete step-by-step guide to mastering the gear and techniques and a collection of 100 explosively flavorful recipes for smoking every kind of food, from starters to desserts.
Ideal for trimming and slicing larger cuts of meat, including holiday brisket, roasts, ham, and turkey, the Shun Kanso Brisket Knife’s long, narrow blade makes it easy to slice meats in a single pass to ensure more of the juices—and flavor—stay inside.
If you’re anything like us, your holiday to-do list is already a mile long. With a calendar full of parties to attend, boxes of decorations to hang, and desserts to bake for school and work, it’s hard to find time to complete one of the trickier items on your list: shopping for gifts.
To help you host the best possible Thanksgiving feast, our friends have helped us bring together the ultimate sweepstakes. The prize includes everything you need to wow hungry guests – from the appetizers and the turkey (and the drum cooker to make it all happen!) to the tools you’ll require to serve it with ease.
If you’ve watched my TV shows (the latest one is Project Fire on American Public Television), you’ve likely noticed I always emphasize that the quality of your food is at least as important as how you cook it.
On the show, we use the best meat. The best produce. The best seafood. This dedication to quality extends to other ingredients as well.
