Tune Up Your Grill, Our One-Minute Cooking Tip, An Interview With Ryan Mitchell, Pork Posole & More!

Let's talk grills. How to tune them up for the summer season. And let's talk to one of the best pit masters in the U. S.We're veteran cookbook authors Bruce Weinstein & Mark Scarbrough. We've written over three dozen cookbooks and developed over 12,000 original recipes in our career. If you'd like to check out some of our work, click on the titles to see our 900-recipe ULTIMATE COOK BOOK or the inventive KITCHEN SHORTCUT BIBLE.We let you know how to tune up your grill for summer. We've got a one-minute cooking tip about charcoal. Bruce interviews Ryan Mitchell, co-author of Ed Mitchell's Barbecue and king pit master of North Carolina barbecue. Plus, we let you know what's making us happy in food this week.Thanks for spending time with us. Here are the segments for this episode of COOKING WITH BRUCE & MARK: [01:03] How to tune up your grill for summer, whether you're using a gas or a charcoal grill.[12:35] Our one-minute cooking tip: Use lump hardwood charcoal, rather than charcoal briquettes.[14:47] Bruce interviews Ryan Mitchell, co-author of the book Ed Mitchell’s Barbecue. Our podcast scored the first (!) national interview with Ryan, long before he hit the morning TV shows and NPR.[27:45] What’s making us happy in food this week? Pork posole!