Wood, Fire & Smoke: Recipes and Techniques for Wood-Fired Cooking by Michael Smith (CA)

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  • ISBN 10 0735247226
  • ISBN 13 9780735247222
  • Published May 13 2025
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 288
  • Language English
  • Countries Canada
  • Publisher Penguin Canada

Publishers Text

Over 80 innovative recipes and techniques for grilling, smoking, spit-roasting, cooking over coals, and more, from award-winning chef and master of wood-fired cooking Michael Smith.

Having spent a lifetime cooking with a passion for the flame, Michael Smith has mastered the many miraculous ways that wood, fire, and smoke go beyond merely cooking food, elevating it instead to crave-worthy meals. Gathering wood, building a fire, tending it, and cooking delicious food with it also offers us a connection to the primal art of cooking over fire.

Wood, Fire & Smoke is a celebration of the intoxicating power of live-fire cooking. In over 80 recipes, the book explores the many ways to cook with fire—methods include wood-grilled, wood-smoked, wood oven–roasted (or baked), pit-smoked, plancha-seared, fire-kissed, barbecued, and charcoal-cooked. Cooking fires, each with its own purpose, are featured throughout and include wood ovens, offset smokers, rotisserie rigs, grills, campfires, wood candles, and more.

Inside, Smith shares his knowledge and cooking techniques for building and tending every type of cooking fire as well as how to harness the magical power of smoke—hard-earned experience cooking over a myriad of fires at the award-winning wood-fired culinary experience at the picturesque Inn at Bay Fortune. The cookbook features flavour-packed recipes for every backyard cook, including Smoked Cracked Ribs with Old-School Dry Rub; Wood-Roasted Pork Loin with Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Apples, and Wilted Arugula; Smoke-Roasted Chicken Wings with Ancho Spice Rub and Blue Cheese Aioli; Ember-Roasted Caveman Ribeye Steaks with Board Sauce; Hay-Smoked Salmon with Maritime Mustard Pickles; Iron-Steamed Mussels with Tomato Basil Broth and Fire Toast, Wood Oven–Fired Pizza; Fire-Kissed Broccoli Salad with Broccoli Hummus; Garlic Thyme Campfire Potatoes; Ember-Roasted Acorn Squash with Tarragon Applesauce; and Rum Creamsicle Campfire Marshmallows.

Wood, Fire & Smoke is for everyone who wants to cook over fire—novice and experienced cooks alike.

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