Grilled Bread

It was bound to happen. After decades of firing up such predictable fare as meat, seafood, and vegetables, grill jockeys finally discovered bread. Of course, grilling may have been the original method used to make bread. The first breads made by our Neolithic ancestors were likely grain pastes cooked crisp on heated stones next to a camp-fire. Today, villagers in Lebanon still use this technique for cooking pita bread. And in India, the flat breads called naan are baked on the sides of charcoal-fired clay barbecue pits called tandoors, while in Mexico commercially prepared tortillas are cooked on a metal conveyer belt that passes over open flames.