Franklin Barbecue

<b><b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER&#160;&#149;&#160;</b>A complete meat and brisket-cooking education from the country's most celebrated pitmaster and owner of the wildly popular Austin restaurant Franklin Barbecue.</b><br><br>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&#146;d gotten themselves into. Today Franklin Barbecue has grown into the most popular critically lauded and obsessed-over barbecue joint in the country (if not the world)&#151;and Franklin is the winner of every major barbecue award there is.<br> &#160;<br> In this much-anticipated debut Franklin and coauthor Jordan Mackay unlock the secrets behind truly great barbecue and share years&#146; worth of hard-won knowledge. <i>Franklin Barbecue</i> 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.