Peace, love, and barbecue: recipes, secrets, tall tales, and outright lies from the legends of barbecue

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Title Page; Dedication; Definitions; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter One: Barbecue = Food + Family + Love; Chapter Two: Can You Keep a Secret?; Chapter Three: Living Legends; Chapter Four: Shrines, Shacks, Joints, and Right Respectable Restaurants; Chapter Five: What's a Little Friendly Competition among Friends?; Chapter Six: Barbecue Goes Uptown and Upscale; Chapter Seven: Barbecue Police and Evangelists; Chapter Eight: Playing with Fire: A Few Things You Need to Get Yourself Started; Resources; Recipe List; Index; About the Authors; Copyright.;A one-of-a-kind collection of recipes, photographs, and behind-the-scenes stories from legendary pitmaster Mike Mills. In this unique combination of cookbook, memoir, and travelogue, Mike Mills, the unrivaled king of barbecue, shares his passion for America's favorite cuisine--its intense smoky flavors, its lore and traditions, and its wild cast of characters. Through conversational anecdotes and black-and-white photographs, readers meet a diverse circle of colleagues and friends and join Mills in a behind-the-scenes tour of the barbecue contest circuit, with stops at some of the best "shrines, shacks, joints, and right-respectable restaurants."Also included are prizewinning recipes that have earned Mills his fame and fortune as a barbecue maestro. These 100 recipes will enable anyone with a grill to achieve champion barbecue flavor right in their own backyard. The selection features Mills' own secret concoctions and treasured family recipes as well as choice contributions from his pitmaster friends, and it covers all manner of barbecued meat and fish, sauces and dry rubs, as well as the sides, soups, and down-home sweets that complete any great barbecue feast. With its folksy, fun-loving tone and its unique insider's take on a hugely popular--and deeply American--subject, this volume will appeal to barbecue lovers, food mavens, and cooks of all stripes.