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Franklin Barbecue by Aaron Franklin

Franklin Barbecue

A Meat-smoking Manifesto [a Cookbook]

Aaron Franklin, Jordan Mackay

Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed · Print & ebook · April 7, 2015

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A complete meat and brisket-cooking education from the country's most celebrated pitmaster and owner of the wildly popular Austin restaurant Franklin Barbecue.

Chef & Restaurant StoriesSouthwestern CookingBarbecue & Grilling
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Who it’s for
A practical-minded deep dive into the craft behind great barbecue, from smoker to meat.
Themes
Barbecue and brisket cooking, Smoker building and fire tending, Meat and wood sourcing
Genres
Barbecue & Grilling, Chef & Restaurant Stories, Southwestern Cooking

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About this book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A complete meat and brisket-cooking education from the country's most celebrated pitmaster and owner of the wildly popular Austin restaurant Franklin Barbecue. When Aaron Franklin and his wife, Stacy, opened up a small barbecue trailer on the side of an Austin, Texas, interstate in 2009, they had no idea what they’d gotten themselves into.

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Today, Franklin Barbecue has grown into the most popular, critically lauded, and obsessed-over barbecue joint in the country (if not the world)—and Franklin is the winner of every major barbecue award there is. In this much-anticipated debut, Franklin and coauthor Jordan Mackay unlock the secrets behind truly great barbecue, and share years’ worth of hard-won knowledge. Franklin Barbecue is a definitive resource for the backyard pitmaster, with chapters dedicated to building or customizing your own smoker; finding and curing the right wood; creating and tending perfect fires; sourcing top-quality meat; and of course, cooking mind-blowing, ridiculously delicious barbecue, better than you ever thought possible.

Fire, Wood, and Brisket

A practical-minded deep dive into the craft behind great barbecue, from smoker to meat.

Come here for

  • The satisfying nuts and bolts of smokers, wood, and well-tended fires
  • A closer look at sourcing meat and cooking barbecue

Expect

  • Guidance on building or customizing a smoker and curing the right wood
  • A backyard-pitmaster reference spanning fires, meat, and barbecue

Where it sits

Barbecue & Grilling97%
Southwestern Cooking35%
Chef & Restaurant Stories32%

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Publisher categories

  • Southern Cooking
  • Barbecue & Grilling
  • Cooking with Meat
Authors
Aaron Franklin, Jordan Mackay
Publisher
Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
Published
April 7, 2015
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Barbecue and brisket cooking · Smoker building and fire tending · Meat and wood sourcing
Reading lane
Southern Cooking