Acknowledgments

Thanks to my intrepid agent, Janis Donnaud, for helping me hatch this book and demanding my best for so many years.

Deepest gratitude to my friend Amanda Hesser, her co-pilot Merrill Stubbs, and the team at Food52 for asking me to write Any Night Grilling. That delightful project ignited my passion for live fire cooking, and set me on a path that led to this book, and continues to unfold.

Thanks to the entire team at Ten Speed Press, especially Julie Bennett, Emma Campion, Lisa Ferkel, and Ashley Pierce for enthusiastically embracing this project, and improving it with their sharp filter and killer design.

Thanks to my stellar photo shoot team, who braved a week of triple digit temperatures to make this book so beautiful, including photographer Johnny Autry, his assistant Nick Iway, and the abundantly talented Ali Slagle.

Thanks to Keith and Courtnery Langford and David and Myrna Langford for the gracious gift of unfettered work time at the Camphouse. Muchas Gracias Rebecca Rather, for the same gift in Fredricksburg.

Thanks to the team at PK Grills, especially my friend (and partner in orange jumpsuits) Scott Moody.

Thanks to Stacy and Aaron Franklin, for generously sharing your expertise, friendship, and delicious meals that get to the heart of good food, family, and fun.

Thanks also to our friends who came for meals to offer feedback and support, especially Todd Duplechan and Jessica Maher, Amy Brotman, Greg Lane, Pat Sharpe, Charles Lohrmann, Amanda Eyre Ward and Tip Meckel, Claiborne Smith and Tomas Rivera. Nettie Patterson, Tammy and Eddie Young, Clayton Maxwell and Scott Sloan, Abigail King, Melissa and Craig Garnett, Danny and Celina Leskovar, Rachel Zindler, Paul Newman, Joshua and Jaime LaRue, Scott Foster, Nancy Mimms, and Rodney Gibbs.

Thanks to my parents, Mike and Julie Disbrowe, for always cheering me on, and for enduring the rollercoaster of recipe testing that my crazy profession requires.

Thanks to Fran Norman, Jana Norman, and Paul Turley for love and support from Pensacola and Adelaide.

Most of all, thanks to my family: My wonderful children, Flannery and Wyatt, for being so cool about all the time that mom spent racing through grocery stores, schlepping charcoal, and cooking out back. Thanks to my husband, David Norman, for being my most trusted sounding board and letting me take over the backyard shift. The moment when the three of you pull up a seat to our dinner table will always be the best part of any day.