Ardie Davis on the smoking new KCBS cookbook

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The 25th Anniversary edition of the Kansas City Barbeque Society Cookbook — which hits store shelves on April 27 — dives into the world of competition barbecue via the stories and recipes contributed by the most interesting and accomplished characters from the organization’s 11,000 members.
 
“It’s a huge variety — that’s one of the real strengths of the book. It could help somebody who is new to barbecue as well as those that fancy themselves the best,” says author Ardie Davis.

Davis co-wrote the book with fellow charter member Chef Paul Kirk and Carolyn Wells, who founded the Kansas City Barbeque Society with her late husband Gary. In an effort to reflect how the organization has grown over the past two decades, the cookbook is a collection of more than 200 recipes from more than 100 contributors.

“For us this was about putting some faces to the society, telling their

stories and making it more than a cookbook,” says Davis.