Peace, Love & Barbecue: Recipes, Secrets, Tall Tales, and Outright Lies from the Legends of Barbecue: A Cookbook (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781594861093)

This unique combination of cookbook, memoir, and travelogue features 100 recipes, photographs, and behind-the-scenes stories from legendary pitmaster Mike Mills.

In Peace, Love, & Barbecue, Mike Mills, the unrivalled 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 tone and its unique insider's take on a hugely popular--and deeply American--subject, Peace, Love, & BBQ is perfect for barbecue lovers, food mavens, and cooks of all stripes.

Author: Mike Mills, Amy Mills Tunnicliffe
ISBN-10: 1594861099
ISBN-13: 9781594861093
Publisher: Rodale Books
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2005
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 10.01h x 8.03w x 1.04d
Award: James Beard Foundation Book Awards - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 06/01/2005 pg. 64
New York Times 06/05/2005 pg. 12