MEATHEAD GOLDWYN is the barbecue whisperer, hedonism evangelist, and myth-buster behind the world’s most popular barbecue and grilling website, AmazingRibs.com. He has written hundreds of articles about food and drink in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, AOL, and the Huffington Post, and he has taught at Cornell University and Le Cordon Bleu in Chicago. He has also judged food and drink from Italy to California. His images have appeared in numerous publications.

PROFESSOR GREG BLONDER, PH.D., is the science advisor to AmazingRibs.com. He has a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University. He has served as chief technical advisor at AT&T’s Bell Labs, holds more than eighty patents, and is a professor of design and manufacturing at Boston University. His love of food, especially barbecue, brought him to culinary science research.