Books by Steven Raichlen and Complete Book Reviews

Steven Raichlen, Author Workman Publishing $30 (576p) ISBN 978-0-7611-1317-1
The title of the latest assemblage from the author of James Beard Award-winning Raichlen (Miami Spice; High-Flavor Low-Fat Cooking) doesn't begin to convey the international scope of the nearly 500 grilling recipes he gathered while on a three-year,
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Steven Raichlen. Workman, $22.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-5235-0276-9
Author and TV chef Raichlen is in fine form in this collection of recipes and techniques for the grill, a follow-up to Project Smoke. An expansive first chapter provides suggestions for picking proper tools and fuels; the following dozen chapters...
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Steven Raichlen. Workman, $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7611-8186-6
Raichlen begins this work, a companion cookbook to his latest TV series, with a sage observation: “Smoking is easy, but it isn’t always simple.” Employing a variety of charts and instructional photos, he offers a path to glory with his “Seven Steps...
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Steven Raichlen. Workman, $22.95 (656p) ISBN 978-0-7611-6644-3
Raichlen’s 30th cookbook is not exactly reaching out to a new audience. Over the past 16 years, with tomes like The Barbecue Bible and TV shows like Primal Grill, his masculine sensibility of cooking with fire has been hard to miss. However, give or
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Steven Raichlen. Forge, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3238-7
Renowned for his bestselling cookbook titles, Massachusetts author Raichlen (Planet Barbecue!), moves into fiction with the story of a solitary, unkempt beachcomber known as “the Hermit” who has lived on Chappaquiddick Island for the past 10 years....
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Steven Raichlen, Author Viking Books $29.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-670-89312-6
Isn't healthy Jewish cooking an oxymoron? That's the typical response Raichlen, author of Barbecue! Bible and Steve Raichlen's High-Flavor, Low-Fat Vegetarian Cooking, got whenever he mentioned he was writing this book. It turns out that Jewish...
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Steven Raichlen, Author Rodale Press $29.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-87596-497-3
In trimming a cuisine notoriously high in fats and cholesterol, James Beard and IACP Award winner Raichlen (Miami Spice) relies on today's popular approaches, increasing the ratio of vegetables and fruits to meat, and creating rich flavors with...
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The giddy joy that comes with picking up this tribute to outdoor cooking is comparable to the adolescent thrill of sneaking a naughty magazine into the garage. Not only does every conceivable meat, fish and fowl get its turn over the coals, there is
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Steven Raichlen, Author Poseidon Press $16.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-54428-7
Grounded in classical French cuisine, influenced by nouvelle, this is an affable, nondogmatic, very American, venturesome work by the food-and-wine columnist of Boston magazine, who is also the chef-instructor of the New Hampshire cooking school of...
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Steven Raichlen, Author . Workman $20.95 (638p) ISBN 978-0-7611-4801-2
Barbecue cookbooks are often large; every Raichlen barbecue cookbook is large in its own way. Reaching beyond the scope of his BBQ USA (425 recipes in 784 pages) and the 10th edition of his Barbecue! Bible (500 recipes in 556 pages), this Tolstoy...
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Steven Raichlen, Author . Workman $35 (784p) ISBN 978-0-7611-2015-5
Raichlen's 24th tome falls firmly into the quirky camp of his Beer Can Chicken, with its mixed-grill of recipes, barbecue tips, food history and restaurant profiles. While the chapters are essentially broken down by main ingredient ("Going...
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Steven Raichlen, Author, Robin Zingone, Illustrator Workman Publishing $22.95 (348p) ISBN 978-1-56305-519-5
In 10 years' time, says Raichlen, ``I've watched Miami blossom from a gastronomic backwater to a culinary hot spot.'' Here, Cuban, Nicaraguan, French Caribbean, Iberian, Chinese, Deep South and Jewish cuisines meet but remain distinct, each taking...
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Steven Raichlen, Author, Jim Lambrenos, Illustrator . Workman $12.95 (326p) ISBN 978-0-7611-2016-2
After such all-encompassing efforts as The Barbecue! Bible and How to Grill, Raichlen turns his attention to a single and hilarious style of preparation, one based on an inspired theory: if there is anything a guy loves more than his grill, his...
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Steven Raichlen, Author, Ron Tanovitz, Illustrator, Susan Goldman, Photographer . Workman $30 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7611-3335-3
While Raichlen, who's made a television and book-writing career as an advocate of cooking over live fire, still believes that outdoor cooking is the best way to cook, he admits that isn't practical for apartment dwellers or those living in...
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Steven Raichlen, Author, Susan Goldman, Photographer . Workman $12.95 (298p) ISBN 978-0-7611-4211-9
Grillmaster Raichlen (The Barbecue Bible ; etc.) believes "[t]he rib is surely the most perfect morsel of meat known to man. Most of the world's great food cultures back me on this." To wit, he points to the gastronomy of Argentina,...
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Steven Raichlen, Author, Raichlen, Author Viking Books $29.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-670-85782-1
Raichlen, whose Miami Spice won the 1993 I.A.C.P. Julia Child Award for Best Regional American Cookbook, admits that college vegetarianism of ``soybeans and brown rice'' turned him into a ``committed carnivore.'' But age, health and experience...
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Steven Raichlen. Workman, $19.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-5235-0548-7
Barbecue guru Raichlen (Project Smoke) turns his expert attention to that collagen-laced chest cut of beef known, in 1450 England, as bru-kette, revealing it as the modern-day centerpiece for an international menu of delicacies. Over 60 recipes and...
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Steven Raichlen. Workman, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-523-50984-3
Barbecue expert Raichlen (The Brisket Chronicles) turns to plant-forward cooking in this comprehensive outing. Raichlen makes his appreciation for global flavors evident in these 153 recipes, with a diverse array of dishes originating from, among...
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