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Summary: Great book if you know what you are doing
Review: This book is full of awesome, diverse recipies. Make no mistake, however, it will not show you techniques to develop your own recipes, but instead gives you several international dishes. This is not a "how to" guide but is simply a cook book, with tons of recipes to help you diversify your grilling repertoire. You have to try the honey sesame shrimp. Good golly they're good. So is the beer can chicken!so if you are tired of barbecue chicken, lawry's salt covered stead, ordinary hamburgers and marinated chicken breasts, then get this book. BE WARNED, SEVERAL DISHES REQUIRE SEVERAL HOURS MARINTATING TIME ... so plan ahead!!
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Summary: No Bible, just a decent intro for the casual cook
Review: Judging from the other reviews I am sure that this book fills important needs but it sure does not do much for me and could have been better even on its own terms. It is a short cut for people who want to produce edible, decent food but do not want to learn that much about barbecuing and the cuisines that produced these recipes. Those aiming for higher quality barbecue, whether Thai, Turkish or even (actually, especially) Southern style barbecue will do much, much better elsewhere. Thus, it is a pretty decent if shallow introduction to the world of barbecuing for the beginning or casual cook. It aims for ease of execution, lack of unpleasant surprizes, diversity and inclusiveness rather than above average food quality. While the recipes and descriptions of techniques I examined do not contain much objectionable and are nicely presented, you will not become a pit master based on what you learn in this book, nor will you learn that much about the cuisines represented in the book. The recipes and the techniques are simplified and will produce reliable if not particularly distinguished food. If you aim beyond the if-it's-Tuesday-then-it-is-Belgium type of cooking, stick to books focusing on a particular cuisine. For example, those who would like to learn about Southern Barbecue would do much better with Barbecued Ribs, Smoked Butts, and Other Great Feeds by Jeanne Voltz or The Great American Barbeque Instruction Book by Clark Hale to name just two books. None of this means that there is anything wrong with this approach, actually it is a fine book for what it is, as Raichlien is a master at producing this types of books. My major objection to this book is its title and the fact that it is marketed as a comprehensive, last word on the matter when in fact it is not even complete at this beginning level, for the author actually stretched its contents over three books (another marketing ploy?). The other two books, How to Grill and Sauces ... should have been part of the "Bible."
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Summary: BBQ made EASY
Review: I bought this for my husband and he found it so easy to use. We have fallen in love with the Memphis-style rub for ribs... A must for any summer evening!!!
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Summary: A must for all barbeques
Review: Everything I have made from this book has been fantastic. Steven Raichlen is a first class chef, and a good writer.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This is a wonderful cookbook packed with interesting recipes from diverse ethnical origins. Very resourceful for me as an Executive Chef of a restaurant where I was able to get many ideas for my menus. There is not one recipe in this book that I have tried that I didn't like. I recommend the Barbecue Bible to both amateur and professional cooks.
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Summary: Barbecuing for dummies and experts!
Review: Absolutely the best barbecue book in my cookbook library! I have yet to try a rub, marinade, or sauce from this book I didn't like! My husband likes to use one of the recipes for barbecued chicken that has a marinade, sauce, and wet mop. We used it for his company picnic, and everyone said it was the best barbecued chicken they had ever had! Granted, every time I cook one of Raichlen's recipes, I have to go to the grocery store for some inane ingredient I never have around, but boy-oh-boy is it ever worth it! Buy this book!!!
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Summary: Not worth your time
Review: I love to barbeque. I love finding new recipes, so a book called the barbeque bible seemed great. This author seemed to worry more about filling the book with as many recipes as possible rather than making sure the recipes were of high quality. I will say that this book is probably good for the beginer. I think a better book would be anything by cooks illustrated. They test every recipe thoroughly.
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Summary: What a pleasent surprise!
Review: By the title of the book, I thought I had bought a hotdog/hamburger book. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is an very thoroughly planned book wich covers recipies from all around the world and goes from a piña colada to French grilled snails (tastier than it sounds), from Brazil to Bali. If you are looking for different ways of preparing whole meals (from appetizers to dessert) combining new flavours, this is THE book. Much better than the Joy of Cooking (the grilling one) which is a bit presumptious. As the author says, Barbecue! is a book for those who enjoy setting things ablaze and throwing food into it.
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Summary: Very different..adds a new touch to American grilling
Review: I was a bit skeptic about this book but I'm glad I purchased it. The author provides all sorts of details as well as very interesting cultural aspects to each dish. If you're looking for burgers and hot dog recipies then don't look here! These recipies offer American grillers a look at how other people in the world barbeque. Plenty of recipes and step by step instructions so you can grill to impress at your next get together.
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Summary: The Barbecue Bible
Review: Nice recipes, but many are complicated; many ingredients are unique and therefore difficult to find. A better name for the book would be "The Barbecue Gourmet."
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