Adventures in Grilling: Cooking with Fire and Smoke

Whether you’re a novice griller, grilling aficionado, or you just love to cook, this vibrant grilling cookbook from Williams-Sonoma takes a fun and exciting approach to outdoor cooking. Recipes from weeknight burgers topped with caramelized onions and blue cheese to adventurous feasts such as a riverside fish grill are cooked to order by chef and grilling enthusiast, Willie Cooper.

Whether you’re an enthusiastic novice or a seasoned aficionado, this cookbook from grill master Willie Cooper offers a fun and novel approach to outdoor cooking—and makes it adventurous. With lush full-color photography, On the Grill delivers inspiration and sound advice each step of the way on everything from buying a pair of tongs to spit-roasting a pig. Chef Willie invites you to come along on several action-packed grilling adventures, showing you how to plan and pull off a memorable lakeside feast, a perfect summer picnic, a sun-splashed beach bash, a spit-roasting extravaganza, a spirited tailgate party, a Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings, and more.

The eight recipe chapters are organized by type of food such as Fruits and Vegetables; Beef, Pork, and Lamb; Poultry; Fish and Shellfish; On The Side; Drinks; Sauces, Marinades and Rubs; and Condiments. Packed with over 130 mouthwatering recipes and eight exciting grilling adventures, this smart, fun guide to outdoor cooking is guaranteed to bring out the pitmaster in you.

Willie Cooper, a well-seasoned grill master, has been cooking with fire for almost two decades. A graduate of Peter Kump’s New York Cooking School, he has labored in the kitchens of several renowned chefs, including Jean-Francois Taquet and the late Jean-Louis Le Palladin. Today, he is a personal chef and cooking instructor in his own right. Chef Willie resides in the hills above the California wine country town of Sonoma with his wife, Kelly, daughters Charlotte and Emma, two dogs, and several chickens.