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This smoked chicken is made with a whole bird that’s either brined or massaged with a marvelous dry rub and is slowly cooked in a smoker or the grill

Simple and easy. Here’s how to make it at home. Adapted from Joe Carroll | Nick Fauchald | Feeding the Fire | Artisan, 2015 “This smoked chicken makes me giddy!” Those were the exact words typed by one of our most trusted recipe testers, Larry Noak, moments after he hauled his bird off the smoker. Crisp skin, succulent meat, pervasive smokiness, a pronounced yet impeccably balanced spice rub—all traits we covet in a smoked chicken recipe. We can understand why he got a little giddy. We think you will, too. To make this smoked chicken recipe, the authors simply took a dry rub and turned it into a brine. You can make this the same way or you can skip...

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This bourbon buttermilk fried chicken has that incredibly satisfying combination of shatteringly crisp skin and meltingly tender meat with an ever-so-subtle hint of bourbon

The hardest part is letting it marinate for 2 days. Adapted from Gina Medeiros | Personal Collection, 2020 This fried chicken recipe is an amalgam of recipes and techniques I’ve tried over the years in the pursuit of fried chicken that’s worth the work. Adding booze makes the coating crisper. You could use vodka for more neutral results, but my love of bourbon prompted me to try that and that and it has since become my default. Also, I love spicy hot Nashville-style fried chicken. So, this recipe is meant to bring all of the best iterations of fried chicken together in delicious balance. [Editor’s Note: This spectacular recipe comes to use from one of our recipe testers, Gina Medeiros.]–Gina...

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