Grilled summer cooking gets unforgiving fast. A steak over live fire will tell on you in two…
Smoky easy picnic food for backyard cookouts is the kind of menu I trust when the grill…
Smoke tells on a backyard cookout before the first plate leaves the kitchen. A good one has…
A grilled picnic spread for backyard cookouts works best when the heat does more than sear meat….
The best charred make-ahead picnic food is the tray that still smells faintly of smoke after a…
A good cookout starts before the grill is even hot. The best summer spreads I’ve eaten weren’t…
Summer zucchini can be the saddest thing on a cookout plate when it’s cut too thin, thrown…
A hot grill does strange things to fruit. A peach half hits the grate, the cut face…
The best backyard cookouts don’t smell like a grease fire. They smell like corn silk singeing off…
Grilled picnic food has one job: make it from the grate to the folding table without falling…
A charred classic grilled cheese tastes like a lunch sandwich that wandered into a backyard cookout and…
A grilled cheese can be a limp little afterthought at a cookout, or it can be the…
A good summer picnic drink has to survive a warm car ride, a sloshing cooler, and at…
The grill throws out smoke, heat, and a little chaos, which is exactly why the drink beside…
Smoke curls off the grill, somebody’s turning burgers with the tongs one-handed, and the first cold glass…