A complete meat and brisket-cooking education from the country's most celebrated pitmaster and owner of the wildly popular Austin restaurant Franklin Barbecue.
Franklin Barbecue is a definitive resource for the backyard pitmaster, with chapters dedicated to building or customizing your own smoker; finding and curing the right wood; creating and tending perfect fires; sourcing top-quality meat; and of course, cooking mind-blowing, ridiculously delicious barbecue, better than you ever thought possible..
In this much-anticipated debut, Franklin and coauthor Jordan Mackay unlock the secrets behind truly great barbecue, and share years' worth of hard-won knowledge.
Today, Franklin Barbecue has grown into the most popular, critically lauded, and obsessed-over Barbecue joint in the country (if not the world)--and Franklin is the winner of every major Barbecue award there is.
When Aaron Franklin and his wife, Stacy, opened up a small Barbecue trailer on the side of an Austin, Texas, interstate in 2009, they had no idea what they'd gotten themselves into.
A complete meat and brisket-cooking education from the country's most celebrated pitmaster and owner of the wildly popular Austin restaurant Franklin Barbecue