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Book Title: Wicked Good Barbecue: Fearless Recipes From Two Damn Yankees Who have Won the Biggest, Baddest BBQ Competition in the World
Book Author: Andy Husbands,Chris Hart,Andrea Pyenson,Ken Goodman,Steven Raichlen
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Book Product Detail
- Publisher : Fair Winds Press; Illustrated edition (April 15, 2015)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 224 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1592336841
- ISBN-13 : 978-1592336845
- Item Weight : 1.48 pounds
- Dimensions : 8 x 0.75 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,265,045 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,198 in Barbecuing & Grilling
- Customer Reviews: 203 ratings
About the Author
Andy Husbands is an award-winning pitmaster who began developing his own unique style of cooking upon opening Boston’s Tremont 647 in 1996 and later, Sister Sorel. His latest culinary venture, The Smoke Shop, culminates Husbands’ continued success and pays homage to his extensive background in the competitive barbecue circuit. His honest, approachable fare makes Smoke Shop the "Best Barbecue Restaurant" according to Boston Magazine, and the restaurant has been praised in The Boston Globe, Wine Spectator, Star Chefs, and more.
After nearly three decades in the restaurant industry, Husbands serves as one of Boston's most celebrated culinary leaders and foremost authority on regional Barbecue and live-fire cooking. He competed on the sixth season of FOX Television Network’s fiery Hell’s Kitchen and is internationally-recognized for his BBQ team, IQUE BBQ, who became the first New England team to win the World Champions of BBQ title in 2009 at the Jack Daniels World Championship in Tennessee. Husbands is a large contributor to Share Our Strength as well as an active board member of the Massachusetts Restaurant Association, who acknowledged him as the 2014 Chef of the Year and a Rodman Celebration Restaurant Chair. He has also co-authored several cookbooks, including Pitmaster, Wicked Good BBQ, Wicked Good Burgers, Grill to Perfection,and The Fearless Chef.
Chris Hart, winner of the Jack Daniel Invitational World Championship in 2009, has dominated the competition BBQ circuit for the past 10 years with his team, IQUE. The team was the first group of Northerners in barbecue history to win a World Championship. Chris spends his days developing software, but his passion for cooking barbecue has him following the competition BBQ trail on weekends, pitting his talents against the best pitmasters in the U.S. Chris has cooked multiple barbecue tasting dinners at the James Beard House in NYC. He has appeared on the TV show BBQ Pitmasters, and is a Food Network Chopped Champion. He is coauthor of Wicked Good Barbecue, Wicked Good Burgers, and Grill to Perfection.
Andrea Pyenson has been writing about food for more than a decade and enjoying it for a lot longer than that. Her writing about food and travel has appeared in The Boston Globe, edible Boston, edible Cape Cod, msn.com, oneforthetable.com, The Washington Post, and Fine Cooking, among others. Pyenson was associate editor of The Boston Globe Illustrated New England Seafood Cookbook and assistant editor of 52 Weeks Cheap Eats: Dining Deals in Greater Boston.
Multi-award-winning author, journalist, cooking teacher, and TV host, Steven Raichlen is the man who reinvented barbecue. His best-selling Barbecue Bible cookbook series and The Primal Grill and Barbecue University(tm) TV shows on PBS have helped people all over the world ascend the ladder of grilling enlightenment.
Ken Goodman is a freelance photographer based in New York City. He specializes in food and chef photography, concerts, events, portraits and cookbooks. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone magazine and Art Culinaire, and he has photographed Mario Batali, Jimmy Fallon, Jon Stewart, Michael Stipe, The Edge, Sean "Puffy" Combs, Mariska Hargitay, Stanley Tucci, Jon Bon Jovi, and Anthony Bourdain (among others). Prior to his photography career, he spent 20 years in the restaurant industry as a classically trained chef, culinary educator, and restaurant consultant.
Book Review
Name: BBQ CompetitorRating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: WANT TO WIN in Competiton BBQ? Or even WIN with your friends? BUY THIS BOOK!!
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 11, 2012
Review: We have competed with numerous teams since 2003. We have never formed our OWN team, but hung out, and learned from the BEST in New England. Hey, NE teams have won the Jack Daniels World Championship 4 years in a row! Hummmm...DOES that say something? Anyway, we first heard about this book last year, and when we were told we could pre-buy the book, we did. It was due out in April, 2012. Much to our delight, it came out this past week!(Feb. 2012) OMGOSH, don't get no better than this, we said! Our copy arrived on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. The wife got home after work, and she was upset that I wouldn't let her read it, see it, etc. I was engrosed, not only from the format, but the pictures, foward, and everything else I was thumbing through the pages for the past 4 hours. From the first read of the book, the forward, not to mention the chapters, I could NOT put this book down.
You have to know, that we have met Chris, Andy and ALL the iQue team since we went to our first BBQ competiton experience back in 2003 in Lowell, MA. We have BBQ'd with many team's helping out, and couldn't wait to see this book, PERIOD! So, in brief, here is what you will find and love...and I MEAN LOVE!!
1. USER FRIENDLY: Whether you are a seasoned veteran in the BBQ competition world, or a newby, or just someone who wants WONDERFUL recipes, you will find incredible thing's to make! This book has recipe's that anyone can make, to ultra incredible delights that will tickle your taste buds beyond control, yet cost a bit more, or take a smoker or two to make. However, each recipe gives exact measurements, and controlled cooking times, and especially important TIPS. This includes how to make each recipe and any other extra things you might need. These boy's have provided the proper tools, smokers, wood, charcoal, and just everything to do what YOU want to make in WORLD CLASS BBQ, that these Master's have accomplished over the years,(and proudly so), or other recipes you can WOW your friends with! It doesn't matter if you want to make good competion BBQ , or other recipes in the book, you will prevail in good food and eat's for all! PERIOD!
2. WHO IS THIS FOR? Novice to pro, and EVERYONE inbetween! iQue has given BBQ secrets that WE wondered about for year's. Especially wood chunks!! We ALWAY'S soak our's at home, they say NO! We will follow and test and maybe enjoy more good eat's!! Just all the little thing's this team has provided for good 'Q '!! NICE!! Yet, they provide delish' recipes for anyone who wants to provide tasty dishes to a broad range of people who enjoy just 'plain good food'~ From main dishes, to side dishes, dessert & DRINKS, this book provides any lunch or dinner party food your guests will be AMAZED at!! They will be talking forever about these dishes for sure!
3. WHAT WILL YOU FIND? You will find so many wonderful recipes and stories!! These boy's not only gave us their secret's to KCBS BBQ, but also secret's when a competition includes 'anything but', or grilling competition's. As these guy's are professional's, they guard their secret's even when we come to say 'hi' at their 'pop up tent's' in our local competition site's, in New England or anywhere in the USA! Yet, last nite, we tried one of their recipes, Collosal stuffed crab cake stuffed shrimp, and know why they win. Yummy. You will also FIND great link's listed in the end of the product's they have used and use from sauce's to spices and sponsor's that they have gained doing their incredible BBQ. Great link's!
4. THE STORY... We LOVE BBQ book's written by real BBQ competitor's that write storie's, real life stuff. And the iQue team did this, and more~~ From their win's all over the nation including the Jack Daniels World Championship win in 2009, to all the State's in NE, including State's of NY, NH, VT, etc. to brisket #1 at the Royal, they start each recipe with a story. That mean's alot, to the background of the recipe, how it started, when they got it (from their Mom, etc.) just awesome!
5. AND LAST...THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF THIS BOOK, FOOD SHOT'S!! OMGosh. I first met Ken Goodman years ago, but most important when he starting shooting the book pic's in Lake Placid, NY. His pic's were amazing as he showed me then, and throughout the year's since, even more amazing! My wife had a 'native american vision' that Ken would fly in his 'new venture' of photography. Boy was she right!! Ken has flown, since that day in Lake Placid, NY and has continued to be sure. His incredible picture's are beyond anything that can come close. He is now photographing Mario Batalli, Anthony Bourdain, and numerous other celebrities. He is FLYING with his photo's and status. PLEASE, check out this wonderful man's website, listed here in the book description. An amazing man, we have come to know, learn from and quite frankly adore!! Each picture of the iQue team he has shot, we have almost been there, throughout. Yet each picture in the book, looks just the same during 'turn-in's' as they do when making them in your home! (Remember, we just made the Collosal stuffed shrimp dish~~photo's to follow, yet we are NOT Ken, don't have that camera...only a Cannon!! ;))
Well enough said for now. In closing, this is a book about a New England BBQ team who fought the odd's, over the year's and not only made it in a BBQ Nation of over 4,000 team's to #1, but did it with good 'Q', and PRIDE that we are all proud of, especially here in NEW ENGLAND! From Chris Hart being on "FOOD NETWORK'S INAUGURAL SEASON OF 'BEST in SMOKE', to Andy 'OC' Husband's excellent cookbook "THE FEARLESS CHEF", as well as being on 'HELL'S KITCHEN' with Gordon Ramsey, to his wonderful CHEF/OWNER restaurant TREMONT 647, located in Boston, MA, & Andrea Pyenson's writing...and finally, KEN GOODMAN'S AMAZING PHOTO'S of the INCREDIBLE FOOD the iQue team produced...WOW...WOW, AND DOUBLE WOW!! ENJOY, learn, and love the read....we did!
Name: Kikaida
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good for the TARGET audience
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 14, 2013
Review: This is a great book if you are looking for competition grade BBQing methods and recipes.
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Over the years I have shifted from the "more is better" camp to the "less is better" camp. That being said, a lot of these recipes (although they look amazing) are very involved for the casual BBQer such as my self. Don't get me wrong, I can cook like a mad man but with years of experience came the conclusion that the less effort I put into a cook, the better the results.
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They have a brine in this book that has what appears to be well over a 20 ingredients...My brine of Kosher salt, sugar and water works just fine for me. My chicken is super moist and tastes like chicken, kissed by smoke and seasoned to enhance its natural flavors. Not to mention the cost involved in putting together something so elaborate, the time involved and an outcome that although may be slightly better than the basics, isn't nearly as "time and effort" efficient. But it's that edge that wins competitions. Plus when one of those massive undertakings fail to please? Well, that really stinks...and it happens. So I don't try to make competition grade Q at home, I make "better than anyone else in the neighborhood...Q" hehehehe.
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Now if you are trying to break into the circuit or love going nuts with all kinds of ingredients and techniques...then this book is for you. The average Joe can pick up a lot of good things from this book but there are other books that are a little more in-line with "Backyard BBQ"...Which is the name of a great book for the casual Qer looking to go beyond the basics but not into the stratosphere of technicality.
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Again, not slamming the book, just calling it like it is. This is a good book to add to a collection but if you're just starting out and want one book to nail down the basics with room to experiment; this may prove to be a bit overwhelming.
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Hope this helped.
Name: Captain Ron
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: So much more than just a "BBQ Book"
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 10, 2012
Review: My copy of Wicked Good Barbecue arrived earlier in the week. I've been looking forward to this book since I first hear about it on the BBQ Brethren forum last fall. I pre-ordered as soon as that option was available. Sometimes when you look forward to something for that long when it finally happens it can be anti-climactic. That is definitely not the case with Wicked Good Barbecue! As soon as the book arrived I flipped through it and was thrilled with the amount and quality of information and recipes. Andy and Chris are well known on the competition BBQ circuit and are world champions, so I expected some good information on competition BBQ, but I didn't expect the depth and quality of the information. I've already picked up a couple of things that I will try out before our competition season starts. I also didn't expect the creativity in the recipes. Whether you're a BBQ novice or a veteran competition cook there is something in this book for you. Besides the more traditional BBQ recipes there is some very inventive fusion of BBQ and modern cooking techniques like the "Smoke-vide" Beef Ribs with Blues Hog Foam. I can't wait to try this recipe! The book also includes a very good selection of side dishes and desserts to accompany your BBQ.
In addition to all of the great information, the photography in this book is excellent!
