Southwestern Grilling

Simple, fast, and extraordinarily versatile, grilling is the cooking method for today. Almost everything can be prepared on the grill, from shrimp to salsas, corn to kebabs. And no wonder: the clear, fresh flavors we love are preserved, fewer added oils are required, and food actually loses fat as it cooks.

Southwestern cooking was virtually born on the grill. In Southwestern Grilling, Jane Stacey has brought the robust flavors of peppers, smoky chiles, limes, cilantro, and garlic to vibrant life in more than 70 delicious recipes. Lemon Chicken in a piquant tomatilla salsa; duck with a delicious red chile plum sauce; tequila marinated shrimp; a subtle-flavored lime and chile rubbed corn--here are imaginative dishes full of the vitality and lively flavors so special to southwestern food. Add colorful salsas and spicy rubs to enliven any dish, and even irresistible low-fat desserts--grilled cornbread with berries, buttermilk sherbet with grilled pineapple, grilled peach granite--and you'll never look at your grill the same way again.