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The Barbecue! Bible
By Steven Raichlen
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Too few photos
The text part is great, but I was very disappointed that there are so few photos in the book. I would not have bought if I had known that.

Excellent accurate easy recipies!
My husband picked this book up and we’ve had so much fun for the past 6 weekends or so trying out new things to put on the barbeque!
Can’t wait to try the next one now!
It’s worth every cent; I’m impressed with how closely authentic Steven’s kept all the recipes!

I wasn’t impressed, the book totally misses the point. Bible??? I think not! Where’s the meat?
Where this book fails immediately is that Barbecue is not about the sauce it’s about the meat. I know, I design sauces and own a BBQ Sauce Company. I’m always looking for good BBQ cookbooks. The author gives no information on preparation of meat or cooking it. He spent 13 pages on how to light different grills and I wasn’t impressed much with that. I think the big headlines were used to waste space so that he could put out a big book. I could go on but here is one final thought. The book claims to be the Barbecue Bible, you’d expect it to cover the subject in every detail and with some degree of experience. This attempt at being the Barbecue Bible fails miserably. I bought the book online, if I saw the book in a book store and was able to go through it, I would not have bought it. Steven Raichlen is probably a food critic or cookbook editor, not a barbecue expert.