As soon as it's warm enough to fire up the grill, cookout season has begun. Turn on Wendy Rene's "Bar-B-Q" (the ultimate outdoor cooking song) and dig out that bag of woodchips. It's time to smoke ...

Outdoor cooking should be an immersive, hands-on experience, and one of my favorite things to add drama and flavor when grilling or smoking meat is to add a mop sauce. A marinade applied before the ...

Brisket has a reputation for being the kind of dinner that takes over your whole day: long marinades, 14-hour smokes, and a nervous eye glued to the thermometer. It doesn’t have to be that dramatic.