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Introduction
For his birthday in 2003, Meathead’s wife bought him a cheap starter smoker and he was hooked after his first slab of ribs. One day, his neighbor, a former butcher, started bragging on his ribs and, always competitive, Meathead challenged him to a cookoff. Then he panicked.
So he went to Amazon to order all the books he could find on ribs and barbecue. To his dismay, there weren’t many. Trained as a writer and photographer with some culinary chops, he saw an opportunity. He thought “I’ll write a book about ribs!” To get things rolling, he built a website, AmazingRibs.com (because in those days search engines listed results alphabeti- cally). It had one recipe, Last Meal Ribs.
Well it took him until 2016 to get that book off the presses. “Meathead, The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling” was called “one of the 100 best cookbooks ever written” by South- ern Living magazine, and page 206 has the recipe for Last Meal Ribs. So does this book.
In the meantime, his website has grown to 4,000 pages with hundreds of recipes from steaks to burgers to eggplant par- mesan, almost all cooked outdoors, plus lessons on technique, science and mythbusting, as well as unbiased product reviews of hundreds of grills, smokers, thermometers, gadgets, and more.
Among them are some excellent ribs recipes, many of which we have compiled in this book, which also includes recipes from accomplished pitmaster Clint Cantwell, and just about
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