Love all the Food52 cookbooks and this one is just as good! Excellent pictures, clear directions and recipes, and most of all, delicious! Loved all the veggie recipes too

Grilling "cookbooks" are nothing new to the cookbook world, but cookbooks like this one are getting harder and harder to find. This book really captures the basics of grilling to drive home the concept of "any night" specified in the title. I found that I really could make most of these recipes any night of the week with very little trouble.

This is a book with decent recipes, but I feel like most of them were similar to things I have seen before. It was not really a collection of new inspiration for me. I guess it would depend on how much exposure to grilling people have had,

Grilling cookbooks, it seems, are a dime a dozen. However, GOOD grilling cookbooks are not always easy to find. Food52 Any Night Grilling: 60 Ways to Fire Up Dinner (and More) is another excellent cookbook from Food52, a popular blog site; I own several of their cookbooks and just like the ones I already own, this excellent cookbook has dozens of dishes I actually want to cook.

There are no boring dishes in this book, rather, new, innovative foods such as Grilled Toasts with various toppings, Grilled Pizzas, Grilled Corn Nachos, Grill-Roasted Chicken with Tomatillo Salsa, Porterhouse Pork Chops with Sage-Chile Butter, and Cowgirl Strip Steaks with Pink Peppercorn Crust to name a few. There is a primer on grilling fish, Adding Woodsmoke to Foods, The secret to Spectacular Boneless Breasts (it works well, by the way), and The Best Burgers. The recipes are written in such a way that they are easy to follow and understand and b,oth experienced and beginner cooks will be able to turn out picture-perfect dishes every time. The photographs are also beautiful.

Bottom line: this book has it all – at least all for those of us who want to make spectacular grilled foods and don’t have time to mess around with difficult or time-consuming grilling.
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Food52 Any Night Grilling: 60 Ways to Fire Up Dinner (and More) is the only cookbook you’ll need this summer, and most likely you’ll be cooking from it through fall and even winter if you can get through the snow to your grill. Highly recommended.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

I love grilling food so I was always going to enjoy this book. It was much more than that though. There were lots of tips for grilling that you would not think of. It wasn't complicated which is always a bonus with very easy recipes. A great book.

This wonderful cookbook shows the basics of cooking over fire. Simple, easy to make recipes from kebabs and tacos to grilling fruits that even I could do!

TITLE: .Reality check needed: These are fussy, creative, time-consuming recipes--great for entertaining, a total fail for week nights.

Reading the title of this book, I expected to find a good assortment of grill recipes that could be managed after a full day of work and a grueling drive home. Tired, hungry, needing to relax--there's no better way to set yourself up for some relaxation than to check on the kids,change clothes, start up the grill, take the dog out, then head to the kitchen to grab some meat or veggies from the frig, do a little prep work and step out the door and--wallah!--the grills heated and ready to go. All of us who enjoy grilling, have a repertoire of quick and easy work week night grill recipes, right? We just needed this Food52 book to give us a few change-ups, right? I mean, "Any Night" does mean any night of the week, right? Work days taking up the majority of the week, I would expect work night recipes to be included in "Any". Nope! Nada! Does not happen in this book!

This is a truly fine, and creative and sophisticated, grilling book for the retired, for those who work from home, for those couples without children who have extra-curricular activities, singles without household chores and boundless energy who love to entertain.

I'll tell you what--and I'll be honest about it: This book starts with sophisticated and creative drinks, then moves through grilled breads, sides and toppings and nibbles, then on to sophisticated and creative salads. If I took the time to make one of those drinks, went outside and took more time to grill veggies, ambled back to the kitchen to steam those veggies, strip skin from the peppers, assemble a multitude of ingredients, get out the blender or processor to whirl it all into a sauce or dressing, have a nibble of this or that, then made myself another drink and went out to grill again? Before we ever sat down at the table? Well, we would hardly survive the night to come. My husband and I would be cranky and ready to argue--if we weren't at it already. It would already be 7 p.m. and we would all be starving. I think the author needs a reality check. So do the two Food52 co-founders, who thought this was a great idea.

The advice implied in the Forward and Intro is to take one's time, stay upbeat and enjoy yourself--kind of like copacetic grilling. After a time or two, it will all happen easily. A mood of sophisticated entertaining prevails. Oh, really? Sure, it sounds so good! The ultimate way to grill; leisurely, appearing effortless. The ultimate in grilling attitudes and atmospheres. Pie in the sky and when pigs fly......

Maybe your schedule allows you more time, but I don't think our family is all that much different from a good majority of families with working parents. And, over the years, I may have lost track of what Food52 was all about, but I thought this type of family was part of its foundation. Am I that wrong? As I plowed through this book, I got worked up a bit, and angry a bit. Nothing extreme, mind you, because I did try some of these on weekends and whenever we had some down time. But, for the most part, I found these recipes almost "restaurant fare", with long lists of ingredients, (sometimes difficult to find), in and out of the kitchen prepping and then back to the grill, and too many pots, pans and bowls. There is home-made phyllo dough, hand-made sauces and dressings, poaching (special-size) octopus for 45 minutes before grilling. These are fussy recipes, and need a lot of TLC.

If you are an inexperienced griller, you may split a gasket trying some of these. Why? Because the author does a decent job of explaining how to prep the meal, but pretty much fails at being able to describe and teach the intricacies grilling. I think a big question that a new griller has is "How do you know when it's done?" And that question is really not addressed here.

I originally began writing this review by calling out and describing the recipes I tried, then--when I found myself criticizing so many of them for their length--I nixed that idea and took the generalized approach that you read above. Tucked in among all the fussiness, there are some keeper recipes, but most are overly complicated for what you can buy in your area or per your experience level, and some recipes that just don’t work well the way they are written. Ingredient lists are often daunting. Be aware that this author lives on a ranch near Austin, TX. And her husband half-owns a bakery and restaurant. The upbeat Austin area, the ability to grill all year, having access to all kinds of foods all year long--all that is taken for granted in this book. For instance, you may look at the chicories or winter squash that are in several recipes and know you can only get that type of produce during cold months when you don't grill because there's too much snow on the ground.

I don't often give average star ratings for cookbooks. Heck, I usually don't choose to review cookbooks that I don't think I'll like. I thought wrong on this one, though. I usually love most everything Ten Speed Press publishes, too. So sorry, people, this book is just not for me.

*I received a temporary download of this book from the publisher.

If you like grilling then this book is for you. I love grilling, but rarely have the chance to do it. This book gives you a bunch of tips and tricks for the different ways of grilling. The recipes all look fancy, more complicated and fancy then I would attempt, but look so good. So who knows, I may give them a try sometime.

This is a non-fiction book, so I am quite honestly not a reader of non-fiction so my review is not as in depth as it would be for a fiction book. I rarely read non-fiction so I apologize for the lack of depth to my review.