Wood, Fire & Smoke - by Michael Smith (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Over 80 innovative recipes and techniques for grilling, smoking, spit-roasting, cooking over coals, and more, from award-winning chef and master of wood-fired cooking Michael Smith.

Having spent a lifetime cooking with a passion for the flame, Michael Smith has mastered the many miraculous ways that wood, fire, and smoke go beyond merely cooking food, elevating it instead to crave-worthy meals. Gathering wood, building a fire, tending it, and cooking delicious food with it also offers us a connection to the primal art of cooking over fire.

Wood, Fire & Smoke is a celebration of the intoxicating power of live-fire cooking. In over 80 recipes, the book explores the many ways to cook with fire--methods include wood-grilled, wood-smoked, wood oven-roasted (or baked), pit-smoked, plancha-seared, fire-kissed, barbecued, and charcoal-cooked. Cooking fires, each with its own purpose, are featured throughout and include wood ovens, offset smokers, rotisserie rigs, grills, campfires, wood candles, and more.

Inside, Smith shares his knowledge and cooking techniques for building and tending every type of cooking fire as well as how to harness the magical power of smoke--hard-earned experience cooking over a myriad of fires at the award-winning wood-fired culinary experience at the picturesque Inn at Bay Fortune. The cookbook features flavour-packed recipes for every backyard cook, including Smoked Cracked Ribs with Old-School Dry Rub; Wood-Roasted Pork Loin with Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Apples, and Wilted Arugula; Smoke-Roasted Chicken Wings with Ancho Spice Rub and Blue Cheese Aioli; Ember-Roasted Caveman Ribeye Steaks with Board Sauce; Hay-Smoked Salmon with Maritime Mustard Pickles; Iron-Steamed Mussels with Tomato Basil Broth and Fire Toast, Wood Oven-Fired Pizza; Fire-Kissed Broccoli Salad with Broccoli Hummus; Garlic Thyme Campfire Potatoes; Ember-Roasted Acorn Squash with Tarragon Applesauce; and Rum Creamsicle Campfire Marshmallows.

Wood, Fire & Smoke is for everyone who wants to cook over fire--novice and experienced cooks alike.

About the Author

Chef MICHAEL SMITH and his wife, Chastity, are the proprietors of The Inn at Bay Fortune and the award-winning restaurant FireWorks in Bay Fortune, Prince Edward Island. Michael is the bestselling author of twelve cookbooks, most recently Farmhouse Vegetables and Farm, Fire & Feast. He has hosted several TV shows on Food Network Canada, appeared as a judge on Chopped Canada, and is a member of the Order of Canada. Michael lives on Prince Edward Island with his wife and their children, Gabe, Ariella, and Camille.