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The BBQ Forum Barbecue Cookbook Vol. I - The early years of the Forum
The BBQ Forum (http://www.rbjb.com/rbjb/rbjbboard) in 1995 as a project on The Kansas City
Bar-B-Que Connection. The Bar-B-Que Connection was the first web page on
the Internet about barbecue. That's right it was the first one. The
BBQ Forum was started as a new exciting way people could communicate with each
other on a web page. So that made The BBQ Forum the first Forum on the
Internet about barbecue. When I started the BBQ Forum I really didn't
think it would last very long. After all we were talking about BBQ so I
reasoned that in a year or two everything that could be said about BBQ would
have been discussed. Since BBQ Forum was started over 740,000 messages
have been posted. I guess I was wrong.
I also didn't know much about BBQ when I started the forum.
I thought that cooking hamburgers in the backyard was barbecue. Well, the
people on the BBQ Forum quickly corrected me and I was informed that real
barbecue was slow cooking on a smoker and what I thought was barbecue was really
grilling. Most of the people in the world still believe that grilling is
barbecue and so if that is what they believe, then that is what it is.
The people on the Forum have always shared their knowledge about
this type of cooking. They have been so generous that it borders on
unbelievable. An enormous amount of recipes and cooking tips have been
shared over the years. Many times people have suggested that we should
make a cookbook. I even authorized several people over the years to
research the possibility of putting together a cookbook but nothing ever
happened. So I have taken on the task of writing as many cookbooks as it
takes to compile as much of the information as is possible for future
generations.
Now, this is not a normal cookbook because I didn't want to write
a normal cookbook. I like doing things that have never been done before and so that is why this online method was chosen. I have tried to design all of this like a real book but
with a lot of new wrinkles. In this book you will find not only recipes
but you will find comments and helpful tips from peoples comments on the BBQ
Forum. The cookbook has in it not only information about barbecue but you
will find recipes, tips, and comments about other types of foods. Barbecue
people are great cooks and so it's only natural that they have shared much
information about other types of cooking, so I had to include them as well.
Now, navigating this cookbook is different but similar to a real
cookbook. What your reading now is a combination book cover, and introduction
that you would find in a regular book. You get around in this book by
clicking on the tabs at the top of each page and using the menu on the left.
There is a search feature that will allow you to find anything you want so I
don't know if we really need and index. So just like that I have decided
that there is no index in this book, just the search feature.
Ray Basso
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