A Kiss of Smoke

This book hosts a compendium of my favourite recipes which can be cooked outdoors on a barbecue or using traditional indoor kitchen methods. In this book you will find good, honest cooking; meals that you will love to eat and love to serve to family and friends. None of the photography has been staged, every photo was taken just before the food was eaten, so again there is honesty in the way it is presented.

Most of the recipes are cooked using the more gentle, indirect barbecue method, positioning food away from the fire, thus reducing the risk of creating a bitter flavour caused by over-charring or burning.

So, whether you want to cook outside on your barbecue or indoors in your kitchen, there will be something in this book for you. I hope you enjoy recreating some of these recipes as much as I have enjoyed sharing them with you.

An ex-IT Consultant, turned livestock farmer and always a keen cook; Jackie has been barbecuing for more than 35 years. In 2004 she became the first and to date only, non-American to win the coveted ‘Grand Champion’ Title at the Jack Daniels Invitational BBQ Competition in Lynchburg, Tennessee.

Jackie now runs a BBQ Cookery School in Kent, she also produces her own range of award winning Rubs and Spice Blends. She has worked with top chefs and complete beginners, introducing them to low and slow cooking over wood. She is one of the early pioneers of bringing American Style BBQ to the UK.