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America’s Best Barbecue: Recipes and Techniques for Prize-Winning Ribs, Wings, Brisket, and More

By Arthur Aguirre

We received a book to help facilitate this review.  All thoughts are my own.

Awesome BBQ Cookbook for the Novice

Barbecue lovers will want to fire up the grill once they get a whiff of the mouthwatering and original recipes featured in Arthur Aguirre’s America’s Best Barbecue.

We really like this cookbook for a lot of reasons. It’s easy to read, and it’s comes straight from Arthur Aguirre treasure trove of recipes and tips. You know how protective these guys are and their BBQ secrets! All the delicious recipes you have wanted to try are at your fingertips and all is reveled in this great book. The book is going to get tons of use this summer on my deck. I simply can’t wait for the Polar Vortex of the Northeast to stop so I can get my grill out.

(We know what makes or breaks a rack of ribs!) So fire up the grill, and be sure to make extra: once that smoke starts wafting across the neighbor’s yard, you’re going to have to share.

Barbecue Contests are Serious Business

Major competitions and festivals now take place in twenty-eight states, and there are twenty BBQ associations and societies across the country committed to encouraging the art of smoking and grilling meat. While thousands of chefs compete for the best ribs or brisket, low-key backyard BBQ competitions are springing up all over the country, offering amateur smokers the chance to become the neighborhood BBQ king or queen.

Arthur Aguirre’s BBQ team, Major League Grilling

Arthur and his team have won nearly twenty awards in his first two years of BBQ competition, including Grand Champion at the Soybean Festival in Mexico, Missouri. In this book he compiles his prize-winning recipes with those of competitors across the country to offer the best rib, pit-fired poultry, brisket, and pulled pork recipes. From applewood smoked turkey to Napa Valley ribs to smoked meatloaf in a bacon weave, this book has something for every BBQ enthusiast. In addition, readers will find tips for concocting the perfect rubs, glazes, and sauces. He obsessively takes pictures and writes about it on his blog, www.majorleaguegrilling.com. His unique BBQ has led to many of his recipes’ being published online.

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