July is National Grilling Month

July is National Grilling Month, a time to embrace the joys of outdoor cooking and savor the flavors of summer. Whether you’re a seasoned grill master or just enjoy the casual cookout, it’s a perfect opportunity to gather with friends and family, share recipes, and make lasting memories. Backyard barbecues, festival parking lots and fire pits on the beach all become places to create delicious meals over a gas grill, coal bed or wood fire.

But sometimes the traditional fare — burgers and hot dogs — can lose their appeal. You can expand your grilling horizons with one of these great cookbooks!

How to Grill Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Flame-cooked Food Bittman, Mark Hamden/Miller Adult Nonfiction 3rd Floor 641.76/BIT The ultimate grilling guide and the latest in Mark Bittman’s acclaimed How to Cook Everything series. Here’s how to grill absolutely everything–from the perfect steak to cedar-plank salmon to pizza–explained in Mark Bittman’s trademark simple, straightforward style. Featuring more than 250 recipes and hundreds of variations, plus Bittman’s practical advice on all the grilling basics, this book is an exploration of the grill’s nearly endless possibilities.

Bobby Flay’s Grill It! Flay, Bobby Hamden/Miller Adult Nonfiction 3rd Floor 641.76/FLA Fire up the best backyard bashes with 150 simple and delicious recipes from grilling guru Bobby Flay in his first-ever fully illustrated, full-color grilling book. Whether you’ve picked up corn at a local farmstand or chicken breasts at the supermarket, a fantastically flavorful, ridiculously simple grilled feast is right at your fingertips with Bobby Flay’s Grill It! Packed with the innovative marinades, sauces, vinaigrettes, and rubs that have helped make Bobby a celebrity chef and leading restaurateur, this beautiful cookbook will help you transform basic ingredients into grilled masterpieces year-round.

Meathead: The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling Goldwyn, Meathead Hamden/Miller Adult Nonfiction 3rd Floor 641.76/GOL For succulent results every time, nothing is more crucial in barbecuing and grilling than understanding the science behind the interaction of fire and food. In this book, “Meathead” Goldwyn, pitmaster, national barbecue cookoff judge, and curator of theworld’s most popular barbecue website amazingribs.com, debunks the myths that stand in the way of perfect outcomes. Along the way, he reveals all the secrets every successful griller needs to know.

Emeril at the Grill Lagasse, Emeril Hamden/Miller Adult Nonfiction 3rd Floor 641.76/LAG If you know Emeril, you know that he always takes cooking to the next level. And when it comes to grilling, that means that instead of hamburgers he’s making Pork and Chorizo Burgers with Green Chile Mayo. Instead of corn on the cob, he’s got Grilled Corn with Cheese and Chile. Anyone can grill a chicken, but only Emeril would come up with Northern Italian-Style Chicken Under a Brick (yes-a brick!). And while we all love peach pie, how about Grilled Peaches with Mascarpone and Honey? You’ve never grilled like this before.

Asada: The Art of Mexican-style Grilling Lopez, Bricia Hamden/Miller New Adult Nonfiction 641.5972/LOP Oaxaca authors Bricia Lopez and Javier Cabral are back with the first major cookbook about how to create asada-Mexican-style grilled meat-at home. With Asada: The Art of Mexican-Style Grilling, Mexican food authorities Bricia Lopez and Javier Cabral offer more than 100 recipes that show you how to prepare the right dishes and drinks for your next carne asada gathering. Asada will both guide you in crafting mouthwatering food and also inspire the right laidback atmosphere.

The Green Barbecue: Vegan & Vegetarian Recipes to Cook Outdoors & In Iyer, Rukmini Hamden/Miller New Adult Nonfiction 641.5636/IYE Fire up the barbecue and grab your tongs-these 75 plant-forward recipes guarantee a flavorful and fun cookout! If you thought “meat-free” and “barbecue” were opposing concepts, think again: Rukmini Iyer’s collection of delicious grill recipes is delightfully plant-based. As a vegetarian, Iyer is always crafting knockout veggie-centered dishes that highlight the unique flavors and textures of plant-based cooking. Her showstopping vegan and vegetarian BBQ dishes will take any cookout from standard to standout.

The Grilling Book: The Definitive Guide from Bon Appétit Hamden/Miller Adult Nonfiction 3rd Floor 641.76/GRI Home cooks will discover their ideal grilling companion and coach in The Grilling Book. Offering more than 350 foolproof recipes, dozens of luscious full-color photographs, crystal clear illustrations, and plenty of plainspoken, here’s-how-to-do-it guidelines, The Grilling Book welcomes you to everything that is sensational (and sensationally simple) about grilling.

Rodney Scott’s World of BBQ Scott, Rodney  Hamden/Miller Adult Nonfiction 3rd Floor 641.76/SCO In this cookbook, co-written by award-winning writer Lolis Eric Elie, Rodney spills what makes his pit-smoked turkey, barbecued spare ribs, smoked chicken wings, hush puppies, Ella’s Banana Puddin’, and award-winning whole hog so special. Moreover, his recipes make it possible to achieve these special flavors yourself, whether you’re a barbecue pro or a novice. From the ins and outs of building your own pit to poignant essays on South Carolinian foodways and traditions, this stunningly photographed cookbook is the ultimate barbecue reference.

How to Grill Vegetables Raichlen, Steven Hamden/Miller Adult Nonfiction 3rd Floor 641.65/RAI America’s grilling guru offers a primer for how to grill vegetables – with lots of creative flavors and techniques – whether you’re eating main dishes that highlight vegetables, or you’re rounding out the barbecue menu with grilled garden-fresh sides. Not a vegetarian book, but vegetable-forward (and with vegetarian and vegan adaptations).

Weber’s Ultimate Grilling: A Step-by-Step Guide to Barbecue Genius Purviance, Jamie Hamden/Miller Adult Nonfiction 3rd Floor 641.76/PUR The most highly instructive and visually engaging grilling book on the market, from the experts at Weber, with more than 100 all-new recipes and over 800 photos.