Low & Slow: Master the Art of Barbecue in Five Easy Lessons

By Gary Wiviott
Surrender all your currently held notions of barbecue. Un-learn everything you think you know about cooking with fire. To do it right, you’ve got to start from square one, and Gary Wiviott’s “Five Easy Lessons” program is going to rock your barbecue world. Low & slow barbecuing—cooking over very low heat or indirect heat for prolonged periods of time—is experiencing a significant comeback in popularity, with more than 7 million charcoal grills and smokers sold every year! Still, although more than half of all Americans own a charcoal grill or smoker, only about 3 percent of them know how to use them. Are you one of them? The “Five Easy Lessons” program featured in Low & Slow teaches readers the best way to use a smoker by understanding fire and smoke control. Once they have the basics down, they will be able to cook barbecue better than most barbecue restaurants. Unlike most barbecue guides, which offer pages of rambling text, heavy on philosophical barbecue wisdom and beer-drinkin’, sauce-slingin’ shtick, while being light on tangible, user-friendly information, Low & Slow offers classic techniques that will improve everyone’s barbecue game.