This opens up a huge can of worms, but simply stated BBQ is the cooking of food with indirect heat, usually provided from the burning of a flavorful wood. There are hundreds of variations, and even more theories, but this is as simple an explanation as possible.
Do clarify things a bit more, indirect heat is best attained in a 2 chamber system, ie... the fire is built in one chamber, and the hot smoke is directed to the food chamber. This can also be achieved with a charcoal or gas single chamber grill, by placing the food on one side, and heating the other side. If you are limited to the more common single chamber equipment, you can throw wood chips on the fire for flavor.
The more common form of BBQ, which is not BBQ at all is direct cooking or grilling. This is how you cook burgers, with the food directly over the heat source. People often assume when you grill chicken over an open flame, then burn BBQ sauce on it, that you have made BBQ chicken. I don't want to knock this cooking method, I do it all the time, it is simple and fast, but technically it is not BBQ.
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From Beverly Hills to BBQ!
It is a long and somewhat strange story how I grew up in
Through a series of events I ended up doing my culinary school internship at the Mansion on Turtle Creek in
It was not until my second jaunt in
It was love at first bite! For the past 4 years, I have been researching, tasting, practicing and learning how to recreate the most amazing, simple and natural food I have ever tasted, Authentic Texas Hill Country BBQ.
Now that I am living back in
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