Life of Fire: Mastering the Arts of Pit-Cooked Barbecue, the Grill, and the Smokehouse: A Cookbook

ISBN: 1984826123

Author: Martin, Pat

Condition: New

The most important book on cooking over live fire in decades. Life of Fire illuminates it all, from coal beds, to home-built pits (in minutes!) to simple, delicious, recipes and enough whole hog know-how to impress the weekend warriors without intimidating newcomers.-Andrew ZimmernONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: SaveurOne of the few pitmasters still carrying the torch of West Tennessee whole-hog barbecue, Nashvilles Pat Martin has studied and taught this craft for years. Now he reveals all he knows about the art of barbecue and live fire cooking.Through beautiful photography and detailed instruction, the lessons start with how to prepare and feed a fire-what wood to use, how to build a pit or a grill, how to position it to account for the weather-then move into cooking through all the stages of that fires life. Youll sear tomatoes for sandwiches and infuse creamed corn with the flavor of char from the temperamental, adolescent fire. Next, youll grill chicken with Alabama white sauce over the grown-up fire, and, of course, youll master pit-cooked whole hog, barbecue ribs, turkey, pork belly, and pork shoulder over the smoldering heat of mature coals. Finally, youll roast vegetables buried in white ash, and youll smoke bacon and country hams in the dying embers of the winter fire.For Pat Martin, grilling, barbecuing, and smoking is a whole lifetimes worth of practice and pleasure-a life of fire that will transform the way you cook.