'If you have ever cooked a steak medium-well instead of medium-rare, a chicken that ends up dry and tasteless, a stew that's tough or stringy or a rack of ribs that falls a little too much off the bone then this is the book that will make your life that little bit better.

This book is about 'slow cooking'. Not meaning that slow cooker you got as a wedding gift that you never use and takes up valuable kitchen space or some big outdoor smoker that most people just don't have, but cooking using anything from frying pans, ovens, pots, grills and affordable outdoor barbecues. It's also not just about tough cuts of meat but also steaks, roasts, burgers and barbecue joints as well as lots of other things you might never have dreamed of slow-cooking at low temperatures!

This is a step-by-step guide to cooking low and slow and why it benefits almost everything you cook and not just big hairy barbecue chefs like me.' Neil Rankin