Barbecue and Grilling Books for the Outdoor Cook

This Father’s Day, find cookbooks that will set your loved one up as the ultimate pitmaster! With tips and tricks from some of the best chefs out there, you can’t go wrong with gifting these recipes.

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Franklin Barbecue

by Aaron Franklin and Jordan Mackay

A complete meat and brisket-cooking education from the country’s most celebrated pitmaster and owner of the wildly popular Austin restaurant Franklin Barbecue.

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$29.99

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Koreatown

by Deuki Hong and Matt Rodbard

Koreatown is a spicy, funky, flavor-packed love affair with the grit and charm of Korean cooking in America. With over 100 recipes for everything from beloved Korean barbecue favorites like bulgogi and kalbi to deeply satisfying stews, soups, noodles, salads, and the many kimchi of the Korean American table.

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Michael Symon’s Playing with Fire

by Michael Symon and Douglas Trattner

Cohost of The Chew and celebrated Iron Chef and restaurateur Michael Symon returns to a favorite subject, meat, with his first cookbook focused on barbecue and live-fire grilling, with over 70 recipes inspired by his newest restaurant, Mabel’s BBQ, in his hometown of Cleveland.

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Rodney Scott’s World of BBQ

by Rodney Scott and Lolis Eric Elie

In the first cookbook by a Black pitmaster, James Beard Award-winning chef Rodney Scott celebrates an incredible culinary legacy through his life story, family traditions, and unmatched dedication to his craft.

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Rob Rainford’s Born to Grill

by Rob Rainford

Born to Grill includes advice on the tools and equipment you’ll need to grill like a pro. It also unveils the Rainford Method–a set of techniques designed to take your barbecuing to the next level. Born to Grill gives you all you need to master your grill, embrace the outdoor cooking experience and wow your friends and family with delicious dishes from around the globe–all in your own backyard.

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$27.95

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Fire + Wine

by Mary Cressler and Sean Martin

Every region has its barbecue, grill, and smoking food traditions. Now the Pacific Northwest can claim its place at the table with these recipes developed by sommelier Mary Cressler and pitmaster Sean Martin from Portland, Oregon. Fire + Wine highlights the ingredients and flavors of the Pacific Northwest to create a fresh, often lighter take on smoking and grilling. They put their spin on the classics as well—brisket, ribs, steaks, pulled pork—and offer up wine pairings to complete your meal.

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$24.95

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Everyday Barbecue

by Myron Mixon and Kelly Alexander

As the winningest man in barbecue, Myron Mixon knows more about smoking meat than any man alive. In Everyday Barbecue he is serving up nearly 150 finger-lickin’ good recipes of barbecue’s greatest hits in a fast, efficient way that you’ve never seen before.

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$25.00

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Thank You for Smoking

by Paula Disbrowe

Award-winning author and grilling expert Paula Disbrowe shows home cooks how to elevate everyday meals with seductive, smoky flavors in this collection of 100 recipes for smoking meats, fish, poultry, vegetables, nuts, grains, pantry staples, and even cocktails on a smoker or grill in as little as 30 minutes.

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Bludso’s BBQ Cookbook

by Kevin Bludso

In 2008, Kevin Bludso opened his own Bludso’s BBQ, a small walk-up stand in the heart of Compton that has led to multiple locations in California, Texas, and even Australia. In this honest and engaging cookbook, Kevin teaches you everything you need to know about BBQ: from choosing, seasoning, and cleaning your pit to selecting your brisket, ribs, and sausages, plus all the rubs and sauces you could need. This is more than a cookbook; it’s Kevin’s incredibly personal story of family, food, and how following your passion sometimes leads you back home.

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Michael Symon’s Carnivore

by Michael Symon and Douglas Trattner

Celebrity chef, restaurateur, and meat lover Michael Symon shares his wealth of knowledge and more than 100 killer recipes for steaks, chops, wings, and lesser-known cuts.

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$35.00

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Feast by Firelight

by Emma Frisch

Feast by Firelight offers solution-oriented recipes that make cooking outdoors feel effortless and downright fun and it shows how to utilize clever cooking methods, prep food at home, and pack smart.

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$22.00

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Franklin Steak

by Aaron Franklin and Jordan Mackay

The be-all, end-all guide to cooking the perfect steak—from buying top-notch beef, seasoning to perfection, and finding or building the ideal cooking vessel—from the James Beard Award–winning team behind the New York Times bestseller Franklin Barbecue.

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The Outdoor Kitchen

by Eric Werner and Nils Bernstein

Chef Eric Werner cooks nearly every dish served at Hartwood over wood fire, without gas or electricity, and when he’s not at the restaurant, he’s making delicious meals for his family, grilled in his own backyard outdoor kitchen. In this book, Werner shares the secrets to and recipes for simple, unrestricted, foolproof outdoor cooking in a way that reimagines the way you cook at home.

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The MeatEater Fish and Game Cookbook

by Steven Rinella

From the host of the television series and podcast MeatEater, the long-awaited definitive guide to cooking wild game, including fish and fowl, featuring more than 100 new recipes.

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Korean BBQ

by Bill Kim and Chandra Ram

A casual and practical guide to grilling with Korean-American flavors from chef Bill Kim of Chicago’s award-winning bellyQ restaurants, with 80 recipes tailored for home cooks with suitable substitutions for hard-to-find ingredients.

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$28.00

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Vegetable Kingdom

by Bryant Terry

Food justice activist and author Bryant Terry breaks down the fundamentals of plant-based cooking in Vegetable Kingdom, showing you how to make delicious meals from popular vegetables, grains, and legumes. Recipes like Dirty Cauliflower, Barbecued Carrots with Slow-Cooked White Beans, Millet Roux Mushroom Gumbo, and Citrus & Garlic-Herb-Braised Fennel are enticing enough without meat substitutes, instead relying on fresh ingredients, vibrant spices, and clever techniques to build flavor and texture.

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Bobby Flay’s Grill It!

by Bobby Flay, Stephanie Banyas and Sally Jackson

Whether you’ve picked up corn at a local farmstand or chicken breasts at the supermarket, a fantastically flavorful, ridiculously simple grilled feast is right at your fingertips with Bobby Flay’s Grill It! Packed with the innovative marinades, sauces, vinaigrettes, and rubs that have helped make Bobby a celebrity chef and leading restaurateur, this beautiful cookbook will help you transform basic ingredients into grilled masterpieces year-round.

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The Japanese Grill

by Tadashi Ono and Harris Salat

Packed with fast-and-easy recipes, versatile marinades, and step-by-step techniques, The Japanese Grill will have you grilling amazing steaks, pork chops, salmon, tomatoes, and whole chicken, as well as traditional favorites like yakitori, yaki onigiri, and whole salt-packed fish. Whether you use charcoal or gas, or are a grilling novice or disciple, you will love dishes like Skirt Steak with Red Miso, Garlic–Soy Sauce Porterhouse, Crispy Chicken Wings, Yuzu Kosho Scallops, and Soy Sauce-and-Lemon Grilled Eggplant.

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The Franklin Barbecue Collection [Two-Book Bundle]

by Aaron Franklin and Jordan Mackay

From America’s foremost barbecue authority and bestselling author Aaron Franklin comes this collection of two essential books—Franklin Barbecue and Franklin Steak—for anyone interested in cooking meat to perfection.

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Smoking Foods

by Ted Reader

Smoking food is an ancient method for preserving meat that has been transformed into a superior way to infuse your food with more flavor. Smoking Foods will show you how pairing ingredients with specific woods will bring out the richness in everything you smoke. You’ll also learn how rubs, marinades, sauces, and more can further enhance the foods you smoke.

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Life of Fire

by Pat Martin and Nick Fauchald

Through beautiful photography and detailed instruction, the lessons start with how to prepare and feed a fire then move into cooking through all the stages of that fire’s life. For Pat Martin, grilling, barbecuing, and smoking is a whole lifetime’s worth of practice and pleasure—a life of fire that will transform the way you cook.

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