Product Description

Paul Kirk offers up his barbecue expertise with over 50 recipes for sauces, including marinades, rubs and mops, salsas and relishes, and even homemade mustards and ketchups. Plus, each recipe points to the meats, fish, or vegetables it complements best. You can also learn how to concoct your own signature rubs and sauces for a bold zesty flavor all your own.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23324 in Books
• Published on: 1997-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781558321250
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Amazon.com Review
Paul Kirk has been participating in barbecue competitions for 15 years. He has been named World Barbecue Champion seven times. If you are really serious about barbecuing, Paul Kirk's Championship Barbecue Sauces will help you learn about slow-cooking meat over smoke and teach what you need to know to start approaching barbecuing like a pro. Along with teaching about all the ingredients useful in making rubs, marinades, sauces, and salsas to accompany barbecued meat, Kirk's approach gives a sense of what barbecue competitions are all about. (One of Kirk's goals for this book is to help those who are interested join in and compete.) Recipes are bold and bursting with flavor.

Review
"Paul Kirk's Championship Barbecue Sauces by Paul Kirk, is packed with dandy recipes for sauces, marinades, dry rubs, wet rubs, mops, and salsas." -- Newsday

"Guru of the grill Paul Kirk casts a long shadow in Seattle, even though he lives in Shawnee Mission, Kansas. His periodic barbecuing clinics here have left their smoky mark on Northwest barbecuers, showing many the way to succulent ribs or bragging rights chicken. Now, every backyard barbecuer can make Kirk's secrets his or her own, with his new book, Paul Kirk's Championship Barbecue Sauces." -- Seattle Times

From the Back Cover
Its easy for any backyard chef to serve up tantalizing food from the grill! Paul Kirk offers 175 winning recipes that impart bold, zesty flavor to every cut of meat. Kirk covers the classic American sauces-with tomatoes, mustard, sugar, or vinegar at their base-and offers up a wealth of fresh and creative brews flavored with such things as raspberries, pineapple, ginger, chile pepper, and more.

In special Master Classes and elsewhere, Kirk reveals the basic building blocks of spice mixtures, rubs, marinades, bastes, and sauces. He explains how to layer them during the cooking process, so that grilled or barbecued food not only smacks of flavor, but brisket is more tender, steaks form a crispy crust, and ribs melt in the mouth.

For great barbecue, all you need is this book and a match. An indispensable book, full of big, bold, audacious flavors, bound to take the weekend barbecuer to the master level. Absolutely the best book on barbecue I have ever read. -Mark Miller, author of Coyote Cafeand The Great Salsa Book

Good grilled food begins with a good dry or wet rub and a marinade, and a finished dish is best complimented by a tasty sauce or salsa. Paul Kirks techniques and recipes are must-reading for the wannabe and master barbecue chef. -George Hirsch, author of Grilling With Chef George Hirsch and Adventures in Grilling

No man knows more about barbecue than the Baron, Paul Kirk. His book is a must for all barbecue buffs. The secrets in the sauce-and Paul knows the secrets! -Merle Ellis, author of The Great American Meat Book

Customer Reviews

This man really knows barbecue!
This is by far my favorite barbecue sauce book on my cookbook shelf! Paul Kirk knows barbecue and how to make delicious sauce. I love his Sweet Kansas City Barbecue Sauce recipe. It has a sweet, robust flavor and a nice spicy kick. I have a favorite bottled barbecue sauce that I've bought for years, but this sauce made it seem bland in comparison! I also love his Chicken Rub recipe. I always have a batch of this ready for grilling. It's designed to season poultry, but it's great on beef and pork too! I am eager to try more of the great recipes in this book. He has recipes for rubs, mops, marinades and sauces and explains how and when to use them to create a flavor sensation every time. If you love barbecue like me, this is one book you won't want to be without.

A great learning tool to enhance your Barbecue
When I purcharsed this book I didn't have great expectations for its contents. However, with the credentials that Paul Kirk has I thought it might be interesting reading. I also expected it to contain 175 recipes with little or no explanation of how or why they work, oh and of course the first three chapters would be on how to start my smoker.

I admit, I was wrong! It starts with the basics and teaches you how to build from there. If you are a mustard lover this is definately a must buy. Every ingredient listed serves a purpose and he tells you why. Paul Kirk may not give you his secret recipe, but he sets you up to make your own. Oh, only the introduction covers the cooking methods so the whole book is dedicated to Barbecue Sauces. My only problem with the book is the pages should be laminated It's already getting stained. I love BBQ and this book.

Excellent book for anyone who likes to barbecue!
I am always searching for good marinade and rub recipes. Now that I have this book, the search is over. Paul Kirk really shares his secrets on how to best season grilled/barbecued foods. I have used quite a few of these recipes already. My favorites (as well as my guest's) are Bill's beef power rub and Paul's Terriyaki marinade (using the sesame oil). Paul Kirk focuses on teaching you how to make your own marinades/rubs, etc. but offers plenty of good recipes and variations on such.

I highly recommend purchasing this book if you use your grill as much as we do.