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Peace, Love, & Barbecue: Recipes, Secrets, Tall Tales, and Outright Lies from the Legends of Barbecue | 
 enlarge | Authors: Mike Mills, Amy Mills Tunnicliffe
Publisher: Rodale Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 28295
Media: Paperback
Pages: 312
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 8 x 1.2
ISBN: 1594861099
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5784
EAN: 9781594861093
ASIN: 1594861099
Publication Date: May 20, 2005
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Product Description
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 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-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.
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 At Least They Tell You They're Probably Not Telling You Everything March 7, 2010
Agent Seven (Phoenix, AZ United States)
The first rule of BBQ Club? Don't talk about BBQ Club. I've been doing BBQ for about three years now, perfecting my own sauces, rubs and techniques. What I found in Peace Love and Barbecue is an atypical book that is more helpful than not. It is fun to read, very folksy and has lots of pictures. Its recipes are not uniformly good, neither are they all bad. This book, unlike other books I have read on the subject, winks at the reader a lot. It lets you know that no good BBQ master truly lets go all his secrets, even while purporting to be doing just that. It covers all types of BBQ, has a lot of good history in it and I would say it provides at the very least, a very solid starting point for anyone who is looking for a foundation to build on. It reads like it is more honest than other books on the subject, but when I compare my own personal experience with what is found in the book, I find some of the information to be very mainstream - and not quite correct, almost as if Mike is happy to leave you with conventional wisdom on the subject rather than really get down into the nitty gritty of what made him such a winner. Still, all-in-all, it's a marvelous book, my favorite BBQ book so far, and I highly recommend it.
 helpfull hints January 30, 2010
Paul D. Durant (Davison,Mich. USA)
A very good book on Barecue, it gave me a lot of ideas and recipes to try. I realy enjoyed all the profile of the different people he has come to know over the years.
Peace Love & Barbecue January 17, 2010
Karen (Topanga, CA United States)
I ordered this for my husband, and it came the next day, with regular shipping. I mean the very next day, I couldn't believe it!
BBQ Lovers January 9, 2010
Ross Peeler (Ft. Myers, FL)
This book written by Mike Mills and his daughter is an excellent source of information for those who want to learn more about barbecue history and major players in the industry, and also contains great advice on all the things one needs to know to BBQ as the pros do. Mike had won many awards for his BBQ and he is an excellent story teller. I would strongly reccomend this book for those who are interested in America,s homegrown culinary invention- BBQ.
Very good reading; just make sure you realize what you're getting November 17, 2009
phu (MN)
I enjoy this book; the narrative is light, fun and full of not just interesting tips and tricks, but commentary on the rich (often recent) history of barbecue in the US.
My one warning is that potential buyers should understand that, despite "recipes" being the first and largest word in the subtitle, they are relatively rare compared to the rest of the aspects mentioned. Many sections are accompanied by recipes; however, they are the exception rather than the rule.
This is not to say that what's provided isn't great -- it most certainly is. It is also important to mention that when you are given recipes, they're often more than just "mix these together and cook them for this amount of time;" the authors tend to expound more on the actual ideas behind, for instance, dry rubs and sauces than simply giving a few recipes and calling it good. Dry rub development is given a thorough treatment, and explanations are provided for the various regional sauce preferences you're likely to find throughout the nation.
I do recommend this for people interested in barbecue in general, particularly for its history; with respect to the quality of the writing itself, I doubt it gets much better. However, if you're looking for a cookbook, I suggest leafing through this at a bookstore first to see if it fits your needs.
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