Serial entrepreneur Phillip Swan, 46, visited his native England last year and ended up in charge of a cookout for 20 people at his best friend's house. Instead of firing up his massive propane BBQ, Swan's buddy brought out disposable grills: baking pans with built-in cooking racks.
Pat Davis was just 10 years old when two black men came into his father's barbecue joint in the heart of the Mississippi Delta in 1947. A huge fuss ensued, with four racists shouting every name in the book.
The almost son-in-law says Sarah Palin hated being governor and spoke openly of divorce
A man who roasted his pet dog to enjoy as a meal with his family and friends escaped prosecution after authorities in New Zealand determined the animal was killed humanely.
The average temperature in Bloomington, Minnesota, in January was 6.4 degrees Fahrenheit. But that didn't stop Adam Frey from grilling outdoors and burning through 80 pounds of charcoal during the month.
Hot dogs? Check. Fireworks? Check. Big Ben? Wait a minute...
Of all the great sports of summer, only one leaves competitors covered with sauce, smelling like smoke and clutching trophies with charcoal under their fingernails.
The kids don't know what to do first.
Making merry is serious business at Circle R Ranch, located 10 miles north of Dallas in bucolic Flower Mound, Texas.
It's often said that a real Southerner can "claim kin" with anyone.
Serial entrepreneur Phillip Swan, 46, visited his native England last year and ended up in charge of a cookout for 20 people at his best friend's house. Instead of firing up his massive propane BBQ, Swan's buddy brought out disposable grills: baking pans with built-in cooking racks.
Pat Davis was just 10 years old when two black men came into his father's barbecue joint in the heart of the Mississippi Delta in 1947. A huge fuss ensued, with four racists shouting every name in the book.
The almost son-in-law says Sarah Palin hated being governor and spoke openly of divorce
A man who roasted his pet dog to enjoy as a meal with his family and friends escaped prosecution after authorities in New Zealand determined the animal was killed humanely.
The average temperature in Bloomington, Minnesota, in January was 6.4 degrees Fahrenheit. But that didn't stop Adam Frey from grilling outdoors and burning through 80 pounds of charcoal during the month.
Hot dogs? Check. Fireworks? Check. Big Ben? Wait a minute...
Of all the great sports of summer, only one leaves competitors covered with sauce, smelling like smoke and clutching trophies with charcoal under their fingernails.
The kids don't know what to do first.
Making merry is serious business at Circle R Ranch, located 10 miles north of Dallas in bucolic Flower Mound, Texas.
It's often said that a real Southerner can "claim kin" with anyone.
If Daniel Vaughn has his way, he said, his newborn daughter will "teethe on a rib bone."
After spending the afternoon at a Costa Rican beach, the couple treat guests to a cookout
Every day, Jason Dinant chows down 16 hard-boiled egg whites, one and a quarter pound of meat and four cups of vegetables, sprinkled with an occasional carbohydrate.
At this hour Friday, Congress is still fighting over whether to give the automakers $14 billion to try to prevent General Motors and Chrysler from going bankrupt.
A sixth-generation Texan, Alen Smith had dreamed of finding that gusher of liquid gold that would make him a legend. And he did - in a pot of barbecue sauce bubbling on his aunt's stove.
Vegetarians, beware. It's Wednesday night at the Garden House Hostel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the unmistakable scent of juicy slabs of meat on the grill is wafting through the halls, luring guests to its source.
The actor draws roars of laughter at the Friars event, calling the Today host a "glib putz"
Hanging back, dropping hints, and generally mousing around gets you nowhere and drives other people nuts. Here's what you should do instead.
Hanging back, dropping hints, and generally mousing around gets you nowhere and drives other people nuts. Here's what you should do instead.
All that sculptor Ed McBride intended to build was a simple charcoal grill for his backyard. A year later he was searing salmon steaks on a barbecue fashioned to look like a five-foot-tall dragon.
The proud dad talks about cooking for his daughter – and the family's weekend BBQs
He hugs you "like he's your long, lost friend," one lucky attendee tells PEOPLE
To friends, the idea that Craig Gile would end up in prison just didn't make sense. He was the guy on the tennis court who went out of his way to correct line calls.
Nothing announces the arrival of summer like firing up the grill. Unfortunately, nothing sours a summer party faster than a grill that won't light, smokes too much, or cooks unevenly. Grease, marinades, and sauces wreak havoc on gas burners, while charcoal grills suffer the corrosive properties of charcoal.
If the singer wants to work the grill, "he’ll have to restrain his hair," says the restaurant's manager
Instead of appealing for votes on the campaign trail, Sen. John McCain spent the weekend playing host at his rustic Arizona home -- and on Sunday members of the traveling press corps were his guests.
Here are three things I learned about Sen. John McCain: He wears SPF 70 sunscreen. He looks vaguely like my uncle. And the water he drinks tastes like everyone else's.
Whether they're in Atlantic Station or Inman Park, Atlanta restaurants have hit their stride. T+L heads south to get a taste of some of Georgia's best homegrown talent.
Labor Day, Memorial Day and the Fourth of July are the most popular days to cook outside on the grill says the Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Asssociation. Americans grill with a passion, the group notes, with eight out of 10 U.S. households owning a grill or smoker and half use it more than four times a month.
Traditionally, an extended-stay hotel was little more than a motel with big rooms, tiny kitchens and discounts for guests staying awhile. Realizing just how lucrative the business-travel market is, major hotel corporations are jumping in.
Carbon monoxide poisoning remains a danger year-round in the United States, but health officials warn that hurricane season increases that danger.
It wasn't a Las Vegas blowout, but Lindsay Lohan did get an intimate, low-key party for her 21st birthday, her mother tells PEOPLE.
At dusk, stand on the Congress Avenue bridge over Town Lake, the span linking hip downtown to funkier South Austin, and you'll see it.
Wednesday, Americans will celebrate Independence Day with picnics, parades and pyrotechnics. And with the population at more than 300 million, there will be a lot of all three.
Nothing makes dining outside easier than a fully equipped kitchen just steps from the house.
Having just participated in the vote declaring the United States independent of Great Britain, John Adams wrote his wife Abigail in 1776, predicting that July day "will be celebrated, by succeeding generations, as the great anniversary festival ... with pomp and parade; with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other."
One shopping expert says that most gifts for Father's Day will fit in one of four categories.
Nicole Richie sent friends what she thought was a humorous e-mail invitation to her Memorial Day barbecue - and she can't understand why people don't get the joke.
Pam and Mark Elmore weren't in the market for a home last summer. But when the Bend, Ore. couple happened to stop by a newly built house with a 1,000-square-foot patio, a fully equipped outdoor kitchen - fridge and range included -and a fire pit, they immediately realized they had to have it.
To hear some awed Cardinals employees tell it, Russ Grimm's backyard would not look out of place on a slice of choice beachfront property in Cabo San Lucas. His spacious pool includes a swim-up bar, button-activated waterfalls and gas flames shooting out of rock formations. Grimm moved into the pimped-out pad in suburban Chandler near the team's training facility shortly after accepting Arizona's offer to become assistant head coach and offensive line coach in late January. On more than one occasion since, he and his boss, new Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt, have stood together beside the abundant outdoor kitchen and clinked mugs holding fresh-from-the-tap beer in a toast to their good fortunes.
A backyard barbecue with more than 200 guests, an event center bustling with loyal Republicans at noon and a high school gym at capacity by 5 p.m.: It must be Iowa with presidential contenders in town.
As swimsuit locations go, Memphis rocked.
For vacationers, there's an affordable, comfortable and convenient alternative to booking a hotel room. It's renting a whole house.
Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn says she struggled through decades of abuse and hopes her story will inspire other women.
Americans are involved in a new "space race." According to the American Institute of Architects, Americans are making their outside spaces more and more elaborate - and more like their inside ones.
Pity the poor ranch house; it gets little respect at all. The simple, uncomplicated ranch style is, to its critics, no style at all.
In the spring, any food enthusiast's fancy turns to thoughts of...grilling.
Sports Brand Meat Branding Iron, $30 Sure, you can wear your favorite team's logo, but now, thanks to Topeka entrepreneur Ed Shamburg, you can eat it too. Similar to a cattle brand, his stainless-s...
An army of firefighters and aircraft in Spain is continuing to battle a forest fire that authorities believe was started by a barbecue, with hopes of bringing it under control later Tuesday, government officials said.
A forest fire in Spain apparently sparked by a weekend barbecue has killed at least 11 firefighters, officials say.
Summertime brings out my inner Walter Mitty.
Here are some of the recipes mentioned in the article "Sinful tastes, healthy eating" from Tyler Florence's "Eat This Book":
Authorities have ruled out a purported sighting of two missing Idaho children at a Bonners Ferry, Idaho store, said a spokesman for the Kootenai County Sheriff's Department.
The coroner's office concluded Thursday the victims of a triple homicide in this quiet Idaho town died of blunt force trauma to the head -- a crime that has puzzled investigators and left two young children missing.
Taking charge of an iconic company is a grande--no, make that a venti--challenge for the new CEO of Starbucks, Jim Donald. After a career in the supermarket trade (starting at 16 as a bagger), he j...
The increasingly well-staffed political universe will descend upon a BBQ this afternoon in Fox Chapel, the 90-acre farm outside Pittsburgh where John Kerry will host pols from Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and continue his VP mating dance for everyone, yet no one, to see. (Warning: This may involve banjo playing.)
Americans marked the 228th birthday of the United States with the customary backyard barbecues, picnics, parades and fireworks, but one event was a reminder that freedom often comes at a price.
Grilling, barbecuing, cooking out--by any name, Americans do a lot of it. Some 14 million grills were sold in 2003, according to the Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association, and that figure is expecte...
You're traveling on business this summer and find yourself with a few hours to kill. No client to satisfy. No kids to entertain. Just you--itching to fill your belly, slake your thirst, and relax i...
BEND, Ore. (CNN/Money) - Americans, it seems, have been neglecting one of the best "rooms" in their house - the one out their back doors.
OK, so maybe you're not Bobby Flay, host of the Food Network's "Hot Off the Grill with Bobby Flay." But you can still impress family and friends this Memorial Day weekend with a traditional cookout.
Method: Indirect grilling
Method: Direct grilling
Here's a tip in case you ever attend the winter Fancy Food Show, which spotlights the newest specialty foodstuffs: Balance your sweets and your savories. If a three-day diet of Frick & Frack's Dino...
Do you have a gas grill? Noticed how many propane tanks these days have stickers with little blue cartoon rhinoceroses? Well, maybe you should: Blue Rhino (RINO, $13), the company that makes all th...
The best food I had on this trip down Highway 1 was from a makeshift barbecue stand on the east side of the main drag in tiny Guadalupe, 30 miles south of San Luis Obispo. I'm still kicking myself ...
America is full of foods that are deeply woven into the fabric of their local regions while remaining virtually unknown in other parts of the country. But what if you don't have the time to travel ...
Do you crave a tranquil pond surrounded by cascading plants and moss-covered rocks? A flagstone patio with a built-in stainless-steel gas grill and a custom bar? Or do you want both?
Do you crave a tranquil pond surrounded by cascading plants and moss-covered rocks? A flagstone patio with a built-in stainless-steel gas grill and a custom bar? Or do you want both?
May 1-12: FLOWER FESTIVAL AT THE BILTMORE ESTATE There's nothing wrong with an FTD bouquet, but if you really want to show Mom you care, take her to the Biltmore Estate Festival of Flowers, featuri...
Even if you're among the best in the business, launching a new product isn't easy. Here the business is restaurants--where by some estimates 80% fail or change hands within two years of opening. Th...
One bright summer afternoon in 1999, my buddy Sherman and I headed northeast out of Memphis and drove about 100 miles to the tiny Tennessee village of Cedar Grove. After fruitlessly cruising about ...
Last year over 15 million grills were sold in the U.S. "Some people build entire outdoor kitchens," says Bobby Flay, chef and author of Boy Meets Grill. "But that's not necessary." Well, of course ...
Whenever I go back to Texas, which is where I was born and raised, I indulge in the four basic Lone Star food groups: Tex-Mex, Shiner Bock, chicken fried steak, and barbecue. Now, I'd like to say u...
The wall calendars say 2000 at Louie Mueller's Barbecue, 45 minutes northeast of Austin, Texas, but it might as well be 1959, when Louie Mueller moved his meat market and barbecue pit into the "new...
$175 Cruise the roads of the Mississippi Delta in a '55 Cadillac. The eight-hour Blues & Blacktop guided tour stops at juke joints and barbecue shacks. See www.americandreamsafari.com.
Beef or pork? Slathered with sauce or dry-rubbed with spices? No matter how your ribs are prepared, gnawing the meat off the bone remains one of the most pleasantly primal eating experiences around...
This month, patriotism, charcoal and bottle rockets combine to form that most American of holiday events--the Fourth of July picnic. More than 80% of the country plans a barbecue, and you can amaze...
The time has come. It's barbecue season again, and this year you're going to buy a real grill. No more of those cheap charcoal grills bought spur of the moment from the local hardware store, the on...
Reading the recent history of Sunbeam-Oster you get the feeling someone put this $1.4 billion household appliance maker in one of its own blenders and pushed the puree button. In 1990, several high...
WHEN Monte Peterson took over as CEO of Thermos in 1990, he faced the toughest task in business. Says he: ''We needed to totally reinvent the company.'' Famous for its Thermos bottles and lunch box...
You'd think that 12 charcoal- and gas-fired barbecues in the backyard would give even the most enthusiastic amateur chef enough cooking surfaces to handle any demand. It's not enough for Roger Stan...
Finding the right wine to serve with summer foods is a lot trickier than shelling out for just the right Bordeaux to go with a roast veal dinner in winter. First, you probably don't want to spend t...
Bobby Seale has plans. Big plans. ''I want to become the barbecue kingpin of America,'' said the legendary co-founder of the Black Panther party, the symbol of revolution and the radical left . . ....
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