Tips for Successful Grilling

Hone your skills in preparation for barbecue season.

Summer Reading for the Food Obsessed

Books for the plane, the beach, or just curling up in bed.

Gas Versus Charcoal

Choose what’s under your grate before you choose what goes on top.

Great Grilling and Barbecue Cookbooks

Ten inspiring tomes to help you get your grill on.

Waffles with a crisp honeycombed surface and a tender, moist interior.

Yeasted dough, layered with butter, ground cardamom, and nutmeg.

This contemporary pairing with creamy grits— an old Southern favorite spreading in popularity across the country —doubles the luscious richness.

I am not a big fan of the Jamisons' cookbooks but held out hope that this book would be an improvement. It was not. I found it to be cutesy and to show the authors in what I hope is their worst light (the first chapter being a...

“A Real American Breakfast” by Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison has simple recipes as well as complicated/fancy ones. Nice book. Jim

Page 187 of “Texas Home Cooking” by Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison (Harvard Common Press, 1993) has a tamale pie topping recipe that uses masa harina.

. Another good one is David Garrido’s “Nuevo TexMex.” I also second the Bill and Cheryl Alters Jamisons' books mentioned by another poster. I also moved from Texas just 7 years ago.

That’s basically the one used by Bil land Cheryl Jamison in Smoke & Spice. Most of their recipes are great. Wild Willy’s Number One-derful Rub * 3/4 cup paprika * 1/4 cup ground black pepper * 1/4 cup salt * 1/4...

For grilling: Thrill of the Grill and License to Grill by Chris Schlesinger and Born To Grill by Cheryl and Bill Alters-Jamison. For smoking: Smoke & Spice by Cheryl and Bill Alters-Jamison. Also Paul Kirk’s book on Sauces...

Mmmm, hot sauce!! I love it, as does my hubby, so I am in good company. I bought a used cookbook a couple years ago called “American Home Cooking” by Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison (an excellent cookbook, by...

May I stir the pot a little? In their introductory notes to a recipe for “Liar's Lime Pie,” Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison (“Smoke and Spice”) tell us, "When someone serves you a ‘Key Lime...