Food by Fire
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.
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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.
Mastering the Grill
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
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
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.
Family-Style Desserts For Your Memorial Day Weekend
Bust out your bakeware and spoil the crew at home with some good old fashion, comforting desserts you can dig into together.
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Features & Stories
Newsletter: 🍞 The beauty of a loaf of bread + cheesecake for Shavuot 🍰
The Jewish holiday of Shavuot, celebrating the Torah, runs from May 21 to May 23. It is traditionally celebrated with dairy foods, which makes cheesecake a popular choice for dessert. Look no further than The Ultimate Cheesecake Cookbook: Recipes from Around the World for plentiful cheesecake options!
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: 🍣 Master the art of sushi + potato joy with Jersey Royals 🥔
Sushi expert Nick Sakagami grew up in Tokyo, then moved to Los Angeles at 21, and is the only person outside of Japan to have earned “Osakana Meister” (fish master).
We are thrilled to have his book Sushi Master: An Expert Guide to Sourcing, Making and Enjoying Sushi at Home, newly added to ckbk.
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.
🥪 Supersized sandwiches, spectacular salads + Cooking with Kids: Part 3 🚌
New season, new recipes! You were looking for fresh new ideas, and we have them in triplicate with these books added to ckbk hot off the press.
Nina Cherie Franklin is a wellness expert and founder of the blog and brand ‘That Salad Lady’. In her 2025 book ‘The Build Your Bowl Salad Cookbook’ she shares her expertise and the recipes that she uses to make food an effective part of wellbeing.
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