Women cannot barbecue

I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue.

Most of the characteristic char grilled taste doesn't come from the wood or the charcoal.

Here's a calculation that shows how the intensity of a barbecue, or other radiant heat source, goes as you move away from it.

It leaves the details to the locals, but offers organizational advice, loans out barbecues and sun umbrellas, and covers the public liability insurance.

It turns out that oil spill is a mostly white conversation, that cookout is a mostly black conversation.

In this video, the BBQ street vendor Steven talks about his life as a migrant worker in Shanghai, his view on freedom and independence and his ideal China.

It is traditionally cooked at high temperatures in a tandoor (clay oven), but can also be prepared on a traditional barbecue grill.

Nathan Myhrvold talks about a few of his latest fascinations animal photography, archeology, BBQ and generally being an eccentric genius multimillionaire. Listen for wild stories from the edge of the animal world.