Barbecue or barbeque can both be referred to as a cooking method or an apparatus. The process of making a barbecue is done slowly over low and indirect heat. It is a dry heat cooking procedure that is used to cook meat, fish and other ingredients over smoke, burning charcoal and fire. The smoking process adds flavor to the meat or fish being barbecued.

In this book; A Barbecue Fiesta, I will share with you seventy of my favorite and rare barbecue recipes. These recipes are very simple to make and cost effective. It's from it I pull out any recipe to make when i have plans to hang out with my buddies or when i am having my family over the weekend.

Why should you choose barbecuing over other methods of cooking?

For one, do you know that when you barbecue a meat you eat lesser fat? Yes, you read that right, whenever you barbecue, the excess fat drips off from the grill grates

compared to when you have to cook in a pan or cook pot where the fat has nowhere to go and is eventually re-absorbed by the meat.

When you grill vegetables, the minerals and vitamins are retained, especially with low water vegetables. Cooking your vegetables using this method is nutritionally advantageous than frying or boiling.

Likewise, when you prepare meat or fish over a barbecue, it actually preserves more thiamine and riboflavin. Each of these nutrients which play important roles in maintain a healthy diet, besides the numerous individual benefits they provide.

Enjoying all of the above mentioned has never been easier, it just takes a trier or two and you will see beyond the nutritional and health benefits and get stuck on the distinctive and delicious taste.

A Barbecue Fiesta, embodies 70 of these tasty and rare barbecue recipes you will never find anywhere else.

James Kentun

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