📚 Barbecuing

Fire applied slowly: the methods, the sauces, and the regional faiths around the pit.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject barbecuing in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Joy of Cooking	Irma S. Rombauer	1931	67
	Chef Express	Trident Press International	2003	14
	Barbecue with Beard	James Beard	1975	7
	Barbecue	Robert F. Moss	2010	7
	Vogue	Vogue	1986	6
	America's best BBQ	Ardie A. Davis	2009	5
	Where there's smoke there's flavor	Richard W. Langer	1996	4
	Barbecue	Eric Treuille	2000	4
	Recipe of the Week	Sally Sampson	2007	4
	Americas Best Ribs	Ardie A. Davis	2012	4
	All fired up	Troy Black	2013	4
	Weber's big book of burgers	Jamie Purviance	2014	4
	Barbecue cookbook	Sewell, Elizabeth.	1971	3
	Barbecue Building Book	Sunset Books	1971	3
	Barbecue greats Memphis style	Carolyn S. Wells	1989	3
	The Book of Grilling and Barbecues	Cecilia Norman	1989	3
	Paul Kirk's Championship Barbecue Sauces	Paul Kirk	1997	3
	The barbecue! bible	Steven Raichlen	1998	3
	Indoor grilling for dummies	Lucy Wing	2001	3
	Smokin'	Christopher Styler	2004	3
	Bobby Flay's Grilling For Life	Bobby Flay	2005	3
	Taming the Flame	Elizabeth Karmel	2005	3
	Southern Living Secrets of the South's Best Barbecue	Souhtern Living	2006	3
	Holy smoke	John Shelton Reed	2008	3
	400 Barbecues	Beverley Jollands	2008	3
	Nick Manero's cook-out barbecue book	Nick Manero	1961	2
	Barbecue Cookbook	Carol Bowen	1984	2
	The complete Australian barbecue kettle cookbook	Ross McDonald	1988	2
	The Complete Book of Outdoor Cookery	James Beard	1989	2
	Jack Daniel's old time barbecue cookbook	Vince Staten	1991	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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