Wood, Fire & Smoke Recipes and Techniques for Wood-Fired Cooking - Michael Smith

Over 80 innovative recipes and techniques for grilling, smoking, rotisserie roasting, charcoal cooking, and more, from award-winning chef and master of wood-fire cooking Michael Smith.

Having spent a lifetime cooking with a passion for flame, Michael Smith has mastered the many miraculous ways in which wood, fire, and smoke go beyond simply cooking food, elevating it instead to meals worthy of enjoyment. Gathering wood, building a fire, tending it, and cooking delicious food with it also provides a link to the primitive art of cooking over fire.

Wood, fire, and smoke are a celebration of the intoxicating power of open-fire cooking. In over 80 recipes, the book explores the many ways to cook with fire: methods include wood-fired cooking, wood smoking, wood-fired roasting (or baking), kernel smoking, plancha grilling, embracing fires, barbecuing, and charcoal. Cooking fires, each with its own purpose, are featured throughout and include wood-fired ovens, staggered smokers, rotisserie platforms, grills, campfires, wood-burning candles, and more.

Inside, Smith shares his knowledge and cooking techniques for building and maintaining every type of cooking fire, as well as how to harness the magical power of smoke: hard-won experience cooking over a myriad of fires in the award-winning wood-fired culinary experience at the picturesque Inn at Bay Fortune. The cookbook includes flavor-rich recipes for every backyard cook, including cracked smoked ribs with an Old-School dry rub, wood-roasted pork loin with sweet potatoes and roasted potatoes, and wilted arugula, smoke-roasted chicken wings with Ancho Spice Rub and blue cheese aioli, roasted caveman ribeye steaks with stuffing, hay-smoked salmon with sea mustard pickles; steamed mussels with tomato and basil broth and fire-toasted bread, wood-fired pizza; campfire broccoli salad; Broccoli salad with broccoli hummus; garlic thyme potatoes and rum marshmallow. Creamsicle Campfire Size S

Wood, Fire & Smoke is for everyone who wants to cook over a fire, beginners and experienced cooks alike.