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Barbecue Road Trip: Recipes, Restaurants, & Pitmasters from America's Great Barbecue Regions

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This is a nice book with great stories, plenty of great pictures, and reviews of some great barbecue joints. I don't think that you would be at all disappointed. The reason that I rated 4 stars, rather than 5, is that it lacked on original recipes.

"Barbecue Road Trip: Recipes, Restaurants & Pitmasters from America's Great Barbecue Regions" by Michael Karl Witzel ($30, Voyageur Press, 192 pp.). Witzel took on the Herculean task of trying to encompass the four major barbecue regions - Kansas City, Memphis, North Carolina and Texas. Further, he crammed it full of pictures - 250 in 192 pages. So with a lot of information and a lot of pictures, something had to give, right? Well, it was the recipes. There are only about two dozen included here, although they are set off in a graphically pleasing format that brings to mind a lined index card. So is it a problem to be light on the recipes? Not necessarily, especially when you deliver on content and illustrations to the degree that Witzel did here. Just know going in that there is a difference in this book and many others that fill up page-after-page with recipes and go light in other ways. If you're a fan of barbecue (and if you're not, what are you doing here), then you'll love this book.

I saw this book at a friend's house. He is actually in the book, a pitmaster at one of the BBQ's featured in the book, so it was of special interest to me. The rest of the book is just as interesting! I can't wait to try some of the BBQ's in other areas!

Lots of good recipes and fun and interesting information. A really good read and cookbook