Pat Martin, the acclaimed pitmaster behind Martin’s BBQ Joint, is releasing his first book, “Life of Fire” – Preorder available now

PAT MARTIN’S LIFE OF FIRE
is available for Preorder NOW; hitting bookstores nationwide on March 15th!

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“From one of the South’s most acclaimed pitmasters comes this must-have guide to open-fire cooking, from grilling over wild, young flames, to low-and-slow barbecue over mature coals and cold smoking bacon and hams with dying embers.”

We’re thrilled to share that Pat’s first book, Life of Fire (Clarkson Potter), will hit bookstores nationwide on March 15, 2022.

Here, he reveals all he knows about the art of barbecue and open-flame cooking, in all the stages of a fire’s life. Life of Fire is available for pre-sale now!

Pat Martin is one of the few pitmasters still carrying the torch of West Tennessee whole hog barbecue, and he’s spent a lifetime studying, honing, and teaching the craft.

Through beautiful photography and detailed instruction, the lessons start with how to prepare and feed a fire–what wood to use, how to build a pit or a grill, how to position it to account for the weather—then move into cooking through all the stages of that fire’s life. You’ll grill tomatoes for sandwiches and infuse creamed corn with the flavor of char from temperamental, adolescent flames. You’ll grill chicken with Alabama white sauce over the grown-up fire, and of course you’ll master pit-cooked whole hog, barbecue ribs, turkey, pork belly, and pork shoulder over the smoldering heat of mature coals. You’ll roast vegetables buried in white ash, and you’ll smoke bacon and country hams with the dying embers of the winter fire.

For Pat Martin, barbecue, smoking, and grilling is a whole lifetime’s worth of practice and pleasure—a life of fire that will transform the way you cook.