By Larry Olmsted

Summer is coming, and so is backyard cooking season – so make 2018 your best, most delicious year ever.

BBQ, grilling, smoking – all things that involve cooking with fire have been red hot the past few years. Thanks to an explosion of cooking related TV shows and dramatic growth of quality BBQ joints from coast to coast (not counting that Brooklyn place that looks like a very bad imitation of Texas that became the butt of jokes on Twitter in the past few weeks), more and more people want to perfect live fire cooking and slow smoking at home … more>

Award-winning travel journalist Larry Olmsted is the author of “Real Food, Fake Food.” He is a Contributing Editor to US Airways Magazine and Cigar Aficionado Magazine and “The Great Life” columnist for Forbes.com.