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 Steven Raichlen holding a plate of beef ribs during a Barbecue University session | |
| Born | March 11, 1953 Nagoya, Japan |
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| Spouse | Barbara Raichlen |
Steven Raichlen (born March 11, 1953 [1] ) is an American culinary writer, TV host, and novelist.
Raichlen was born in Nagoya, Japan. [2] He grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, US. [3] He is Jewish. [4]
In 1975, Raichlen earned a Bachelor of Arts in French literature from Reed College. [5] He received a Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowship to study medieval cooking in Europe, and was offered a Fulbright Scholarship to study comparative literature. He trained at Le Cordon Bleu and La Varenne cooking schools in Paris. [6]
Since 1998, Raichlen's books have focused on the culture and practice of global grilling. His 31 books include The Barbecue Bible (1998, revised in 2008), How to Grill (2001), BBQ USA , Healthy Latin Cooking , Project Smoke and Project Fire . His books have been translated into 17 languages. Raichlen also wrote Planet Barbecue! , the story of his travels to more than 50 countries in search of the best barbecue, published by Workman Publishing in 2010. [7]
Raichlen has written for The New York Times , National Geographic Traveler , Food & Wine , Bon Appétit and Esquire magazines. [5]
Raichlen has been known to further careers of barbecue pitmasters thanks to his writing, including Wayne Mark Schafer, of Baltimore's Pit Beef fame Big Fat Daddy's, who was featured in Raichlen's NY Times article and 425 Fiery Recipes book. [8]
In 2012, he released his first novel, Island Apart, about a Chappaquiddick hermit's developing relationship with a cancer patient. [9]
Raichlen created the TV show Barbecue University (aka BBQ U), which aired for four seasons from 2003 to 2006 on American Public Television. From 2008 to 2010 he hosted Primal Grill, again on American Public Television. Primal Grill focused on the "how-tos" of live fire cooking, employing different grills for each technique. In 2015, he created Project Smoke on public television, focusing on traditional and cutting-edge techniques in smoked food. [10] and more recently Steven Raichlen's Project Fire. Raichlen also hosts the French-language TV shows Le Maitre du Grill and Les Incontourables du BBQ on Zeste in Quebec. His Steven Raichlen Grills Italy show was launched on Gambero Rosso Channel in Italy in 2018.
He battled and defeated Iron Chef Rokusaburo Michiba in a "Battle of the Barbecue Gods" on Japanese television.
He has appeared on numerous television programs and networks including Good Morning America , The Today Show , CBS This Morning , Discovery Channel , Oprah , Regis & Kelly , The View and CNN . [5] [6]
Raichlen is the founder of Barbecue University, which offers three-day intensive courses on live fire cooking at the Broadmoor Resort in Colorado Springs. [11]
Raichlen has won five James Beard awards for his cookbooks. High-Flavor, Low-Fat Cooking won the 1993 award for Best Light and Healthy Cookbook, and his follow-up, High-Flavor, Low-Fat Vegetarian Cooking, won the 1996 award for Best Vegetarian Cookbook. [6] In 1999, Healthy Latin Cooking won the award for Healthy Focus.[ citation needed ] He also earned the 2001 James Beard Foundation/KitchenAid Book Award for his Healthy Jewish Cooking [6] [12] His 780-page book, BBQ USA, won the 2004 award for Tools and Techniques. [13]
In 2015, Raichlen was inducted into the Barbecue Hall of Fame. [14] In 2003, Bon Appetit named Raichlen “Cooking Teacher of the Year," the same year that The Barbecue Bible, based on his four years of research while traveling 150,000 miles through 25 countries on five continents, won an IACP Julia Child Award. [6]
Raichlen's wife is Barbara Raichlen. They live in Coconut Grove, Florida [15] and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. [9]
Barbecue or barbeque is a term used with significant regional and national variations to describe various cooking methods that use live fire and smoke to cook the food. The term is also generally applied to the devices associated with those methods, the broader cuisines that these methods produce, and the meals or gatherings at which this style of food is cooked and served. The cooking methods associated with barbecuing vary significantly but most involve outdoor cooking.
Smoking is the process of flavoring, browning, cooking, or preserving food by exposing it to smoke from burning or smoldering material, most often wood. Meat, fish, and lapsang souchong tea are often smoked.
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Indirect grilling is a barbecue cooking technique in which the food is placed to the side of or above the heat source instead of directly over the flame as is more common. This can be achieved by igniting only some burners on a gas barbecue or by piling coals to one side of a charcoal pit. A drip tray is placed below the food to prevent fat from the food igniting and generating a direct flame. Indirect grilling is designed to cook larger or tougher foods that would burn if cooked using a direct flame. This method of cooking generates a more moderate temperature and allows for an easier introduction of wood smoke for flavoring.
St. Louis-style barbecue refers to spare ribs associated with the St. Louis area. These are usually grilled rather than slow-cooked over indirect heat with smoke which is typically associated with the term "barbecue" in the United States.
Beer can chicken is a barbecued chicken dish and method of indirect grilling using a partially-filled can of beer that is placed in the chicken's cavity prior to cooking. The chicken is then stood up on the can and its legs vertically, and slow-cooked over indirect heat, usually over a propane gas or charcoal grill. The process is meant to add moisture to the dish, and some believe that steam from the beer serves to steam the chicken from the inside and add flavor to the dish. Some people are avid proponents of the dish, while others have contended that the efficacy of using the beer is overrated, and that the science regarding beer can chicken is debatable. It has been suggested that the dish possibly originated in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Fruit ketchup is a condiment prepared using fruit as a primary ingredient. Various fruits are used in its preparation, and it is also used as a spread and marinade, among other uses. Banana ketchup is a type of fruit ketchup that is common in the Philippines. Some companies mass-produce fruit ketchup, such as Philippines-based Jufran, and Chups, a small company based in Washington, D.C., United States.
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