smoked meats

Main Meats

Smoked Crack-Back Chicken Recipe

A cool technique for making a whole smoked chicken

May 8, 2012 5:01 pm

Photo: Simon Wheeler

Crack the bones of the intact chicken, then stab it repeatedly. The result looks like a chicken that ran into a truck. But by cracking the bones and stabbing, I can smoke the chicken whole and still get the flavor-rich juices from the bones.

Wild Meat

Smoked Duck Breast Recipe

With caramelized squash, onions, bacon & spinach

Feb 17, 2012 5:01 pm

Photo: Quentin Bacon

Smoked duck breast pairs wonderfully with seasonal fall and winter ingredients like squash and dark greens. Sliced paper thin, it's a highlight of a great charcuterie platter, and as a main course (especially when prepared by Marc Murphy) you may forget chicken breasts ever existed.

Chef Talk

Tim Love: It's All About The Wood

Texas pitmaster on his new restaurant, Woodshed

Feb 1, 2012 10:01 am

If you think a cowboy hat paired with a white chef’s uniform is just a shtick for Tim Love, you’re wrong. For one thing, he doesn’t always don both, like some other chefs always spike their hair or wear consistently ugly footware. For another, the guy has both country and cooking running through his veins.

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