Grilling with a Conscience: A Word About Ingredients and Shopping

A barbecue book may seem like an odd pulpit from which to preach a gospel of healthy eating. Yet much has changed in America since I wrote my first book on the subject, The Barbecue! Bible: There have been chronic outbreaks of E. coli in ground beef and salmonella in chicken, not to mention in such seemingly innocent vegetables as spinach and jalapeño peppers. Many fish species have been overfished and the proliferation of fish farms of questionable cleanliness is having an environmental impact. Not to mention the proliferation of genetically modified crops and a global-food supply chain that adds an average of 1, 500 miles of travel to the foods we buy in the supermarket.