#127 - Beer Can Chicken With Steven Raichlen

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Extra beer on hand?  Grill up some Beer-Can Chicken!

Beer-can chicken is startlingly simple; grill a chicken upright over an open can to make crispy, succulent chicken of unmatched flavor. Once learned, the barbecue cook can apply this technique to endless variations such as Cola-Can Chicken, Ginger Ale Chicken, Iced Tea Chicken, and more.

BEER-CAN CHICKEN: Foolproof Recipes for the Crispiest, Crackliest, Smokiest, Most Succulent Birds You’ve Ever Tasted (Workman Publishing; April 23, 2024; $24.99; paperback) is an updated classic: revised, redesigned, and beautifully photographed for a new generation of grillers. Raichlen, who brought beer can cooking into the American mainstream 20 years ago, offers 50 recipes for inventive variations on this ultimate chicken grilling technique, plus brilliant recipes for birds off the can, perfect sides, and even desserts! 

ABOUT STEVEN RAICHLEN:  

An international TV personality, Raichlen hosts the popular public television series Project Fire, Project Smoke, Primal Grill, and Barbecue University; Le Maître du Grill and Les Incontournables de BBQ in Quebec; and the Italian TV show Steven Raichlen Grills Italy. His latest venture is Project Fire, Season 3. Raichlen founded and runs Barbecue University at the Montage Palmetto Bluff in South Carolina and has lectured on the history of barbecue at the Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress, and Harvard, among many other institutions. In 2016, he was inducted into the Barbecue Hall of Fame. 

Raichlen received a Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowship to study medieval cooking in Europe and was also awarded a Fulbright. He holds a degree in French literature from Reed College and trained at Le Cordon Bleu and La Varenne cooking schools in Paris. He and his wife divide their time between Miami, Florida, and Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. You can visit him online at barbecuebible.com / Instagram: @stevenraichlen / facebook.com/stevenraichlen. 

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