Must have bbq books

[bbq_joe]

Besides Meatheads book, what would you consider must have books for bbq lovers/ smokers?

bbq_joe

[LA Pork Butt]

Since you are a Kamado cooker I would recommend The Kamado Smoker and Grill Cookbook by Chris Grove. What I like about it is that there are 52 lessons with a recipe in each that teaches you 52 different methods of cooking on a Kamado. When you finish all 52 you will fully understand the versatility of your Kamado.

[EdF]

I enthusiastically second this recommendation!

[BRic]

Franklin Barbecue (A Meat Smokin Manifesto ) : Steven Raichlen (Project Smoke ) : Andy Husbands & Cris Hart (Pitmaster) : Tuffy Stone ( The Art Of Great Barbecue ) Mike Mills & Amy Mills (Praise The Lard ) .

These are a few books that I have gotten for Christmas , birthdays or fathers day .I still have to get Meatheads book .

[Huskee]

"Operation BBQ" By Operation BBQ Relief. Great recipe book.

[treesmacker]

Agreed! A nice book!

[Spinaker]

The Food Lab is a must have. IMHO.Not just for BBQ, but for a much better understanding of how cooking works and why foods do what they do.

[Spinaker]

I feel like it is our generations "The Joy of Cooking" Reds Fan 5

[Polarbear777]

The Food Lab, Meathead's Book, and Alton Brown's original good eats series books are my go to for just about everything.

Any other recipe, I usually modify based on something I learned in these.

[Histrix]

"The Food Lab" is your generations "On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen" - the classic by by Harold McGee.

[Nate]

1. Peace Love and Barbecue by Mike Mills
2. Big Bob Gibson’s by Chris Lilly
3. Franklin Barbecue by Aaron Franklin
4. Famous Dave’s Barbecue Party Cookbook


After that there are a lot of other good BBQ books and fringe topic books:
-Food Lab
-A taste of cowboy by Kent Rollins
-chili cookbooks
-cast iron cooking
-campfire cooking
-griddle cooking
-etc...

[Stevet7717]

Smoke & Spice, Revised Edition: Cooking With Smoke, the Real Way to Barbecue

by Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison

[Texas Larry]

+1 on Smoke &Spice

[klflowers]

Salt Fat Heat Acid Samin Nosrat - not BBQ, but a great book on approaching cooking - I actually read it like it was a novel
Franklin BBQ A Meat Smoking Manifesto Aaron Franklin
BBQ Bible Steven Raichlen
Legends of Texas BBQ Cookbook Robb Walsh

[ssandy_561]

Salt Fat Heat Acid was also made into a Netflix series if you want to watch 3 hours of informative TV.

[myndcraft]

Thanks for the tip ssandy_561 -- Had no idea about this and I spend a lot of time in the air for a living so I just downloaded this to my ipad.

[Livermoron]

Nice call on SFAH. I sat through the Netflix series, but absolutely loved the book! I need to go back and re-read it soon.

[FireMan]

All of these.

[EdF]

Yeah, we're getting ready to go through our several bookcases and piles of cookbooks to cull the herd!

[Nuke em]

Troutman got me hooked on this book

[ssandy_561]

I’ve used these two books for some great advice and recipes.

[Santamarina]

Aaron Franklin’s A Meat-Smoking Manifesto changed my life.

[BKYDBBQ]

If you are looking for good BBQ stories / profiles / history...Most of these are not heavy on recipes...

South's Best Butts
Holy Smoke
Peace Love and Barbecue
The One True Barbecue - This is mostly history and profiles of Whole Hog BBQ Pitmasters
Virginia Barbecue A History
Brunswick Stew A Virginia Tradition

[Ericm]

By Andy Husbands - Wicked Good Barbecue: Fearless Recipes from Two Damn Yankees Who Have Won the Biggest, Baddest BBQ Competitions in the World (1/31/12) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HTJO5JC..._NI6YCb8VSBW0H

[Reds Fan 5]

BBQ Bible and BBQ USA by Steven Raichlen (his recipes and AR’s techniques are a great combination)
Cook’s Illustrated Grilling