500 Barbecue Dishes: The Only Barbecue Compendium You'll Ever Need (500 Series Cookbooks) [Hardcover]

Paul Kirk (Author)

Book Description

Series: 500 Series Cookbooks | Publication Date: June 1, 2008

This barbecue compendium is crammed with 500 mouth-watering recipes, all of them clear and easy to follow. Filled with tips on how to select the right ingredients for your barbecue and then how to make them taste absolutely perfect, this is the only book of barbecue you will ever need. An irresistible collection of barbecue essentials and unique offerings including barbecued tex-mex wings, grilled bay oysters, green tea smoked salmon, grilled shark to die for, hot and sticky summer time chicken, German-style barbecued pork sandwich, New Mexico green chile Burgers, mango jicama slaw, sweet potato apple salad, grilled peaches with raspberry puree and many more.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Starred Review. This entry in the publisher's 500 series (500 Cookies; 500 Soups) uses a similar format to the other titles—about 100 base recipes with four to five variations for each. Kirk (aka the Baron of Barbecue), a Kansas City native, has authored other cookbooks (Smoke It) and contributed articles to the National Barbecue News and Fine Cooking and Chile Pepper magazines. He uses his barbecuing experience well to offer a variety of recipes—there are not only recipes to please carnivores (e.g., Barbecued Short Ribs, Hot Jamaican Jerk Chicken, and Grilled Tilapia) but vegetable recipes (Spicy Grilled Eggplant and Vegetable Kabobs) and fruit recipes (Glazed Pears and Summer Fruit Packets) as well as some for sweet dishes (Texas Sheet Cake and Grilled S'Mores). While this cookbook is mainly about the recipes, there is a list of approximate cooking times in the introduction. Highly recommended for most public libraries.—Ginny Wolter, Toledo-Lucas Cty. P.L., OH
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About the Author

Chef Paul Kirk, a.k.a. the Barbecue Guru, the Ambassador of Barbecue, the Baron of Barbecue, and Certified Master Barbecue Judge, is the author of four books on the art of barbecue. Hailing from Kansas City, he is a monthly contributor to the KCBS Bull Sheet, The National Barbecue News, The Goat Gap Gazette, and has written articles for Fine Cooking and Chili Pepper magazines. Chef Paul has completed three Championship Barbecue videos.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Sellers Publishing Inc. (June 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1416205098
• ISBN-13: 978-1416205098
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #461,059 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Straight out of barbecue country in Kansas City, MO, Ardie Davis is the founder of the renowned American Royal International BBQ Sauce, Rub, and Baste Contest, as well as the Great American Barbecue Sauce, Baste, and Rub Contest. His counterpart, Paul Kirk, also of Kansas City, is the operator of Baron's School of Pitmasters and has won over 475 cooking and barbecue awards. Among those are seven world championships, including the prestigious American Royal Open, the world's largest BBQ contest.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great Pictures, July 16, 2008

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T. Griffin (Raleigh, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 500 Barbecue Dishes: The Only Barbecue Compendium You'll Ever Need (500 Series Cookbooks) (Hardcover)

Geat pictures, but little content. I really wanted to like this book, just so I'd have an excuse to buy it for the pictures. But there isn't much to like except for the beautiful photos. No new recipes to make this a must have.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Grilling, not barbecue recipes, August 1, 2008

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M. Leonard (Sacramento, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 500 Barbecue Dishes: The Only Barbecue Compendium You'll Ever Need (500 Series Cookbooks) (Hardcover)

Echoing the comments of the first two reviews, this cookbook is very small making it difficult to hold pages open and the recipes aren't particularly interesting. However the biggest problem for me, and why I gave it two stars instead of three, is that the title is deceptive as the recipes are almost exclusively for grilling. I'm a fan of Paul Kirk and his barbecue sauce cookbook is outstanding which is why I purchased "500". If you're looking for true "low and slow" barbecue recipes 500 is not the book for you.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good start for those looking for some simple yet easily adaptable recipes, March 13, 2010

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Lehigh History Student (Bethlehem, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 500 Barbecue Dishes: The Only Barbecue Compendium You'll Ever Need (500 Series Cookbooks) (Hardcover)

The 500 Barbeque Dishes provides 125 recipes with four variations on each that give a different flavor profile when done. The book has everything from main courses in fish, poultry and beef to side dishes and even grilled desserts. The dishes have been flavorful and are easy enough to make that you can add your own variations on the base recipe provided. Much more of a summer cook book but has provided some very tasty dishes and is a great addition to the series that lacks many main course entrees. I will echo the other reviewers comments and point out this is a grilling book and not a BBQ book.