The DIY BBQ Cookbook: How to Build You Own BBQ and Cook up a Feast

Description

You'll never use a store-bought instant BBQ tray again as James guides you through the DIY BBQ section with handy illustrations, photographs and tips and techniques. BBQs include a Konro - a small portable Japanese grill, a Washing Machine Drum BBQ, a Tandoor oven made from a flowerpot, an Open-faced Grill made from bricks or breeze blocks, a Simple Dutch Oven, and a Whole Pig Smoker. There's even an Oil Drum BBQ - a versatile and simple take on the traditional oil drum barbecues used the world over. And once you've mastered the art of barbecue building, there are 50 stunning recipes that you will turn to time and time again. Including Sri Lankan Black Pork Curry, Mushroom Tacos and Thai Fishcake Skewers as well as the show-stopping recipe for cooking a pig in the pig smoker - this is a fun and affordable way to take your BBQing to the next level.

James Whetlor of Cabrito Goat Meat worked as a chef for 12 years in London, before moving back to his hometown in Devon and working at River Cottage. His award-winning business Cabrito now sells goat meat to catering butchers and restaurants, from a network of farms across the country. His first book Goat won the James Beard Foundation award and the Guild of Food Writers Best Single Subject Food Book of 2019. He also wrote Cooking on the Big Green Egg (2021).