Let the Flames Begin: Tips, Techniques, and Recipes for Real Live Fire Cooking

All the secrets, all the fun, and hundreds of great recipes for real grilling.

They burst on the culinary scene a dozen years ago with the genre-defining Thrill of the Grill; now they're back to demonstrate once again their cardinal principle: cooking your food can be as much fun as eating it. The surest route to backyard nirvana, say Chris Schlesinger and John Willoughby, is to always cook with the real thinglive fire. To make it easy they've put more of everything into this new grilling bible: more useful information, more effective techniques, more imaginative and flavor-packed recipes, more ways to make grilling not just a technique but a way of life. With detailed descriptions of each live fire cooking technique, over 250 spectacular recipes, and advice on everything from accurately gauging doneness to knowing when (and, more importantly, when not) to cover your grill, this entertaining book will take you all the way to grilling masteryand we know you'll enjoy the trip. 16 pages of color photographs, 35 drawings.

Chris Schlesinger is the chef/owner of the East Coast Grill in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Back Eddy in Westport, Massachusetts.

John Willoughby is the executive editor of Gourmet magazine. He lives in New York City.