Barbeque'n with Bobby

by Bobby Seale

Book Overview

A variety of modern and traditional Afro-American barbecued dishes using beef, pork, lamb, poultry, and fish, as well as side dishes, salads, and a section of salf-free, low and sodium and sugarless recipes from the Black Panther leader.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898152429
• ISBN13: 9780898152425
• Release Date: June 1988
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great RIb

I live on Guam where Barbequeing is the way to go. This book has great recipes and we have used most of them. I highly reommend this book.

One Of The Essential BBQ Books Of All Time

When this book came out in 1988, it was pretty much a revelation. I heard about it on NPR, where in an interview Bobby Seale talked about 'Que Bee Rab' - the opposite of real BBQ. Bobby talked about how most people didn't know how to BBQ - they'd stick some sauce on a piece of chicken, throw it on a hot grill, and then watch as the chicken turned into charcoal on the outside and undercooked pink meat on the inside. I grew up in Massachusetts - not the BBQ capital of the world - and even though my Mom was from Virginia, I'd eaten Que Bee Rab dozens of times...and I thought it was BBQ. That interview and this book set me off on a lifetime interest obsession with real BBQ. This is the one of the best books on BBQ ever written, and enen though it's out of print it's worth finding. It's more than a collection of recipes - it's easy to read, conversational style gives you an education in BBQ 101. The key, of course, is 'low and slow' cooking that uses smoke - not fire - to cook the meat. Another key is marinating the meat, and using sauce late in the process, since the key ingredient in BBQ sauce is sugar, and sugar burns. Bobby also points out the African roots of BBQ, complete with interesting info and recipes. Ultimately, BBQ is one of the USA's big contributions to world cuisine. Just as jazz and blues have their roots in Africian Americian culture, BBQ is an esentially Africian American art form that has filtered though the Americian melting pot of groups as diverse as western cowboy cooking and German immigrants who moved to Texas and brought their sausage making skills with them. BBQ has also been part of Africian Americian cultural history - the Black Panthers raised money through BBQs, as Seale points out in the book. Highly recommended, whether you know who Bobby Seale is or not.

Left-Wing Radicals gotta eat!

Anyone who looks at this book will likely be expecting some sort of writings on left-wing radicalism. But that's not what this book is about at all, true, it was written by the co-founder of the Black Panther Party, Bobby Seale, but what he does in 'Barbecue 'N with Bobby', is enlighten us connoiseurs of fine food with barbecue recipes. The recipes are magnificent, and he even tells us some excellent tips on sauces and other types of delacacies. I honestly must stress moderation when using the recipes(before I bought the book I weighed 165 lbs, but now I've bloated up to almost 200lbs!, Bobby's great recipes certainly had something to do with my degeneration into a bloated carbon copy of Che Guevara). If you like barbecues, or like food in general, purchase this book immediately.