Where your food comes from is as important as how you smoke it.

- Steven Raichlen

My message is use grass-fed beef, use heirloom pork varieties, use organic chickens, wait until wild salmon or wild seafood are in season, smoke orga…

- Steven Raichlen

Live fire cooking and barbecue have been so intimately linked with human evolution and history and politics. Everything we do, barbecue informs it in…

- Steven Raichlen

I really love the smoked ice cream because it's so unexpected. Yet when you taste it, it's sort of familiar and otherworldly at the same time. I gues…

- Steven Raichlen

Obviously this is the next frontier - once you've mastered grilling, smoking is what you're going to want to do.

- Steven Raichlen

If you're new to the smoking game, the first dish I suggest you smoke would be a pork shoulder. Unlike brisket or ribs, the meat is intrinsically ten…

- Steven Raichlen

One thing that has been fascinating to me is the exploding interest in traditional American barbecue in Europe. We Americans have historically always…

- Steven Raichlen

If you own a simple Weber kettle grill, you own a smoker. You don't have to spend an enormous amount of money or even buy an extra piece of equipment…

- Steven Raichlen