BBQ USA: 425 Fiery Recipes from All Across America

In 450 dishes covering every state along with Canada and Puerto Rico, BBQ USA commemorates the very best of regional live-fire cooking. Finger-lickin' or highfalutin; smoked, rubbed, mopped, or pulled; cooked in minutes or slaved over all through the night, American barbecue is where fire satisfies obsession. There's grill-crazy California, where whatever gets fired up - dates, Caesar salad, lamb shanks, mussels. Latin-influenced Florida, with its Chimichurri Game Hens and Mojo-Marinated Pork on Sugar Walking Stick. Maple syrup tastes the grilled fare of Vermont; Wisconsin throws its kielbasa over the coals; Georgia barbecues Vidalias; and Hawaii makes its pineapples sing. Accompanying the dishes are hundreds of ideas, techniques, sidebars, and rest stop. It's a coast-to-coast extravaganza, from soup (grilled, cooled, and served in shooters) to nuts (yes, barbecued peanuts, from Kentucky).