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[Pitt Cue Co. the Cookbook] [By: Adams, Tom] [June, 2013]
HardCover. Pub Date :2013-06-03 288 English Mitchell Beazley Now you can enjoy the sublime. smoky and slow-cooked meats from one of the most celebrated London restaurants. Pitt Cue Co. Filled with recipes for the hot. Southern US-style. slow-cooked food that made Londoners queue up. this cookbook allows you to bring the must-try restaurant home.The recipes range from their famous Pickle Backs and Bourbon cocktail to their acclaimed Pulled Pork Shoulder or Chipotle & Garlic Confit Slaw. The Pitt Cue Co. Cookbook is your guide to enjoying the best hot. tender. sticky Americana inspired grub all year round. With information from the expert chefs at Pitt Cue Co. on equipment and methods. and recipes for meats . sauces and rubs. this is your guide to irresistibly delicious food to savor and share.Try out recipes like Smoked Rib of Beef and Bourbon Bone...
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Tom Adams
77 books2 followersBorn Thomas Charles Renwick Adams, Tom Adams was a US-born Anglo-Scots illustrator and painter. Long active in a variety of visual formats, he is known for his work in book cover art, portrait painting, poster, advertising and album art. He is most widely known for his book cover art for the paperback editions of Agatha Christie.
After serving two years in the navy, 1944-1946, he then trained at the Chelsea School of Art and Goldsmiths College, where he received a National Diploma of Painting in 1949. Between 1953 and 1960 he provided illustrations for the youth-oriented UK comics Eagle, Girl and Swift.
In the 1960s and 1970s he became involved with several distinguished poets, including Edward Lucie-Smith, Ted Hughes, C. Day Lewis, Brian Patten, George MacBeth and Adrian Henri as well as artists Sandra Blow, John Piper, Josef Herman, and Mark Boyle among others, producing poetry prints published by his own gallery, the Fulham Gallery, London.
He also designed posters for Mark Boyle's light shows (The Sensual Laboratory), the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Soft Machine. His connection with the modern world of rock music continued when he met Lou Reed, an admirer of his Christie and Raymond Chandler covers. Adams designed the cover for his first solo album.
By the early 60s, Collins decided it wanted to do something more artistically distinct with Agatha Christie’s paperback covers. Impressed with Adams’s cover for John Fowles’ 'The Collector', they engaged Adams and a distinct partnership developed.
He was commissioned to do a trial cover of Christie's 'A Murder Is Announced', which was published with his cover in 1962. Everyone involved was pleased with the outcome. As a result, Adams ended up doing covers for many of Christie's paperbacks, often more than once. The only covers he did not create art for were the pre-1926 books which Fontana did not have the publishing rights to.
PocketBooks in the US very much wanted more realistic covers and for this reason, most of Adams' covers for the US editions feature a single dramatic or portentous scene from the novel that spans the front and rear covers. The two exceptions are "Nemesis" and "The Mystery of the Blue Train".
Fontana in the UK was much more open to Adams' creative input. Thus, the UK covers were often akin to a stylized tableau or surrealist collage. Adams ended up doing the covers for Agatha Christie paperbacks for 28 years (1962-1980), thus becoming connected with her intimately in the minds of many readers.
After serving two years in the navy, 1944-1946, he then trained at the Chelsea School of Art and Goldsmiths College, where he received a National Diploma of Painting in 1949. Between 1953 and 1960 he provided illustrations for the youth-oriented UK comics Eagle, Girl and Swift.
In the 1960s and 1970s he became involved with several distinguished poets, including Edward Lucie-Smith, Ted Hughes, C. Day Lewis, Brian Patten, George MacBeth and Adrian Henri as well as artists Sandra Blow, John Piper, Josef Herman, and Mark Boyle among others, producing poetry prints published by his own gallery, the Fulham Gallery, London.
He also designed posters for Mark Boyle's light shows (The Sensual Laboratory), the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Soft Machine. His connection with the modern world of rock music continued when he met Lou Reed, an admirer of his Christie and Raymond Chandler covers. Adams designed the cover for his first solo album.
By the early 60s, Collins decided it wanted to do something more artistically distinct with Agatha Christie’s paperback covers. Impressed with Adams’s cover for John Fowles’ 'The Collector', they engaged Adams and a distinct partnership developed.
He was commissioned to do a trial cover of Christie's 'A Murder Is Announced', which was published with his cover in 1962. Everyone involved was pleased with the outcome. As a result, Adams ended up doing covers for many of Christie's paperbacks, often more than once. The only covers he did not create art for were the pre-1926 books which Fontana did not have the publishing rights to.
PocketBooks in the US very much wanted more realistic covers and for this reason, most of Adams' covers for the US editions feature a single dramatic or portentous scene from the novel that spans the front and rear covers. The two exceptions are "Nemesis" and "The Mystery of the Blue Train".
Fontana in the UK was much more open to Adams' creative input. Thus, the UK covers were often akin to a stylized tableau or surrealist collage. Adams ended up doing the covers for Agatha Christie paperbacks for 28 years (1962-1980), thus becoming connected with her intimately in the minds of many readers.
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January 7, 2016
I picked up this book based purely on 2 things: it was on the "New Arrivals" shelf at my library, and I really enjoy the tomato red of the cover. However, we all know the saying about judging books by their covers. I took this book home and quickly realized that I wouldn't be able to make a good portion of the recipes in this book (however delectable looking the pictures make them out to be) because I live in a very small apartment in Los Angeles, and I do not own a barbecue grill. That being said, this is a wonderful cookbook. It has a foreword about the restaurant that the book hails from (a hip London BBQ spot that started as a trailer next to the Thames) and some very cool and interesting passages about what makes good meat. There are also cocktail, sides and dessert recipes as well as diagrams of meat cuts, how to arrange your at-home barbecue for proper cooking, and some fun histories about bourbon, bbq and other culinary tidbits. The only recipe I will be folding into my collection is the one for lemonade syrup, but to the someone looking to heighten their bbq skills this book could be very rewarding. Please invite me over if you make the pulled pork.
June 17, 2018
Wow! What an amazing book - full of great ideas for barbecue food, and incredible side dishes. Some of it is quite fancy stuff, that I’m never going to make in a million years, but enough recipes that I will try to make the cost of the kindle book (£1.99) a steal.
May 4, 2019
best British BBQ book I have found
There are recipes here that you cannot find anywhere else the subject is covered in great detail arming the reader to forth and cook. I especially like section on lamb or more precisely mutton and hogget
There are recipes here that you cannot find anywhere else the subject is covered in great detail arming the reader to forth and cook. I especially like section on lamb or more precisely mutton and hogget
August 30, 2021
Very insightful and inspiring book, enough sides to keep a barely eating meat eater anymore like myself happy.
June 29, 2022
Nice mix of delicious recipes foor food and for drinks. I want to eat and drink it all! ALso nice that some of the recipes are more time consuming and some less
July 15, 2013
There are some good ideas for rubs and drink syrups. We made the lemonade syrup and that went down a treat. lots of things I'd like to try if I have time and more of a disposable income. ( my disposable income goes on kids not whiskey!)
March 31, 2015
Great read. Awesome recipes
Lots of good information for cooking/smoking/sides/deserts you name it. All you need in one book. I will be using a ton of information provided in this book
Lots of good information for cooking/smoking/sides/deserts you name it. All you need in one book. I will be using a ton of information provided in this book
June 28, 2013
Very good. Barbecue-centric, but that's what you get. At times a bit US-wannabe, but again, that's what you get.
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