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Our Best BBQ Cookbooks

Let's focus on the BBQ. Flavor-enhancer and key focus of outdoor cooking and summer parties, we all love a BBQ. Learn how to get the most from your grill, and try recipes from the classic to the innovative, from these books by pit-masters of the highest order.

Food by Fire

Food by Fire

Derek Wolf

Derek Wolf has been researching global fire-cooking techniques for the better part of a decade, traveling around the world to learn about dishes like lamb al asador and brick-pressed chicken, now he shares it all in this book.
Mastering the Grill

Mastering the Grill

Andrew Schloss and David Joachim

The encyclopedic range of recipes in this grilling guide by Andrew Schloss and David Joachim covers meat, poultry, seafood, and vegetables—with everything from burgers, steaks, and ribs to lobster tails, turducken, eggplant rollatine, and grilled banana splits.
Smoke & Spice

Smoke & Spice

Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison

In this revised and updated edition of Smoke & Spice—the James Beard Cookbook Award winner that has sold more than a million copies—outdoor cooking experts Cheryl and Bill Jamison serve up 450 incredible recipes, lots of color photos, and loads of BBQ wit, wisdom, and lore.
Floyd on Fire

Floyd on Fire

Keith Floyd

Keith Floyd gives an ode to outdoor cooking in Floyd on Fire where amateur grillmasters are led through this blazing terrain from start to finish, first by building their own garden grill and mastering its fire. Start with hamburgers and soon you’ll find yourself with stuffed suckling pig.

Recently added cookbooks

Recipe of the Day

Recipe of the Day

Quinoa Tabouleh

The Peruvian Kitchen

Morena Cuadra

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"I made this with the suggested garbanzo beans, using the whole can. I added sumac and a bit of cumin. It’s very good summer side dish, or base for chicken. I’ll be making this again, and again." ckbk user, Julie Conover

Author spotlight

Ciril Hitz

Ciril Hitz

Ciril Hitz is a baker and baking instructor with an international reputation for excellence and expertise in artisan bread and baking. He has been on many high profile media, including the NBC Today Show and The Food Network. His books Baking Artisan Bread, and Baking Artisan Breads & Pastries are his comprehensive and highly regarded works on the subject.

Elisabeth Luard

Elisabeth Luard

Elizabeth Luard is a multi award winning food writer and illustrator with some twenty books to her name. She holds the Guild of Food Writers Lifetime Achievement Award, and is the current President of the Oxford Food Symposium.

Tony Ramirez

Tony Ramirez

Tony Ramirez is a self taught barbecue chef who draws on his Filipino and Cajun heritage to bring modern flavors to traditional barbecue. Also known as TFTI BBQ on social media, his book Backyard BBQ with Fire and Spice was published in 2025.

Features & Stories

In Conversation: Food in Fiction—Orlando Murrin & Catherine Kurtz

In Conversation: Food in Fiction—Orlando Murrin & Catherine Kurtz

Orlando Murrin and Catherine Kurtz are both food writers who have branched out to also write fiction. Orlando’s hugely popular crime series, starring a chef detective, includes Knife Skills for Beginners, and most recently Murder Below Deck (published as May Contain Murder in the US and Canada). Catherine’s debut novel Feast (published on June 4) is the story of a girl with an extraordinary sense of taste. We caught up with the two of them to talk food, fiction, and more…

Behind the Cookbook: Baking Artisan Bread and Baking Artisan Pastries and Breads

Behind the Cookbook: Baking Artisan Bread and Baking Artisan Pastries and Breads

Ciril Hitz is one of the leading figures in artisan bread. Fellow baker Peter Reinhart, himself the author of several important works on this subject—and who previously taught alongside Hitz at Johnson & Wales University—calls him “a master craftsman and a true artisan”.

In this piece for our Behind the Cookbook series, the author describes how and why he wrote these books, and highlights a number of bread and pastry recipes that offer a good starting point for anyone looking to improve their bread baking skills.

Newsletter: 🔥 BBQ bonanza! + celebrating Cinco de Mayo ⏰

Newsletter: 🔥 BBQ bonanza! + celebrating Cinco de Mayo ⏰

We have a trio of books hot off the press and newly added to ckbk to freshen up your outdoor mealtimes. Barbecue chef Tony Ramirez draws influence from his Cajun and Filipino heritage, which is reflected in his book Backyard BBQ with Fire and Spice. Chinese-Malay BBQ chef and restaurateur Winnie Yee has released her debut cookbook, Chinese-American Barbecue. Finally, food writer, recipe developer and BBQ expert Brad Prose has combined two of his food obsessions to create Epic BBQ Sandwiches.