⭐ 4/5
16 years ago
Mario has dedicated this book: "To Americans at leisure. We got it down." Well said and a promise of great recipes contained in the book.
Many of the recipes assume you have a grill on the scene where the food is to be prepared and eaten. This really is a grilling cookbook focusing on easy to moderate recipes with lots of strong flavors. This is largely a collection of recipes for carnivores. All but one of the breakfast recipes - Eggs in Hell (eggs poached in a skillet of spicy tomato sauce) - has meat in it. A few appetizers are meat-free like Speedway Guacamole, and of the few side dishes, three even have meat in them.
Recipes sometimes have racing names and the head notes refer to various tracks or racing references. Each chapter has a short introduction with some tips applicable to those foods.
There are also numerous boxed text stories of various tracks, typical mornings at the track, pit stop information, etc. I found the text entertaining and for a NASCAR fan, this wo... Read more
Many of the recipes assume you have a grill on the scene where the food is to be prepared and eaten. This really is a grilling cookbook focusing on easy to moderate recipes with lots of strong flavors. This is largely a collection of recipes for carnivores. All but one of the breakfast recipes - Eggs in Hell (eggs poached in a skillet of spicy tomato sauce) - has meat in it. A few appetizers are meat-free like Speedway Guacamole, and of the few side dishes, three even have meat in them.
Recipes sometimes have racing names and the head notes refer to various tracks or racing references. Each chapter has a short introduction with some tips applicable to those foods.
There are also numerous boxed text stories of various tracks, typical mornings at the track, pit stop information, etc. I found the text entertaining and for a NASCAR fan, this wo... Read more