The Ultimate Barbecue Sauce Cookbook

Rating:
Summary: Excellent Resource for grilling
Review: I've had the book for over 4 years and absolutely LOVE it. I think I've tried about every sauce and rub in the book and would be hard pressed to say that there is one that I DONT like. The little expose' about each of the sauces and rubs is great as well.

Rating:
Summary: Forget This
Review: In spite of its name, there is nothing "ultimate" about this small, hard-back book. It is a marginal collection of (by my count) 106 recipes. The main problem is its copyright date: 1995. Most of the recipes are trendy ones that were hot properties during the cookbook heydays of the early nineties. The authors explicitly admit this with words such as "creative" and "frou-frou". This is not necessarily a bad thing, but it does mean that this book is now obsolete.

Here is how the recipe count breaks down: 19 old fashioned, american sauces, 19 fruit based sauces, 17 odd-ball sauces, 18 international sauces, 16 sauces for stuff besides beef and pork, and 17 rubs.

Here you can find some of the worst recipes I have ever seen in print (I will spare you the gory details). At the end there is a short section that lists 50 bottled sauces that the authors have supposedly sampled. The comments are too brief, long on cute phrases and short on solid opinions.

This volume suffers from graphics that are way too "frou-frou", and anecdotes that are even worse. I do not fault the lack of pictures, but it does seem as if more money went into the binding and the nice dust jacket than in the visual presentation of the pages.

The nicest thing I can think of to say is that it might make a good gift for someone who might be interested in good "Q".

Rating:
Summary: Forget This
Review: In spite of its name, there is nothing "ultimate" about this small, hard-back book. It is a marginal collection of (by my count) 106 recipes. The main problem is its copyright date: 1995. Most of the recipes are trendy ones that were hot properties during the cookbook heydays of the early nineties. The authors explicitly admit this with words such as "creative" and "frou-frou". This is not necessarily a bad thing, but it does mean that this book is now obsolete.

Here is how the recipe count breaks down: 19 old fashioned, american sauces, 19 fruit based sauces, 17 odd-ball sauces, 18 international sauces, 16 sauces for stuff besides beef and pork, and 17 rubs.

Here you can find some of the worst recipes I have ever seen in print (I will spare you the gory details). At the end there is a short section that lists 50 bottled sauces that the authors have supposedly sampled. The comments are too brief, long on cute phrases and short on solid opinions.

This volume suffers from graphics that are way too "frou-frou", and anecdotes that are even worse. I do not fault the lack of pictures, but it does seem as if more money went into the binding and the nice dust jacket than in the visual presentation of the pages.

The nicest thing I can think of to say is that it might make a good gift for someone who might be interested in good "Q".