Weber's Grill Masters Series
Sit in on a one-on-one conversation between top Grill Masters Jamie Purviance and Steven Raichlen as they compare notes on grilling techniques, what inspired these classically trained chefs to pursue the art of cooking with live fire, and what led to their biggest grilling mistakes. You might just pick up a few simple secrets to make you the Master of your own grill.
Weber Grill Master Series (1 of 3): Inspiration
Weber Grill Master Series (2 of 3): Cooking with Live Fire
Weber Grill Master Series (3 of 3): Grilling Mistakes
Jamie Purviance (pronounced Purr-VIE-ance) graduated from Stanford University and the Culinary Institute of America (with high honors) before launching his career as a food writer for major publications such as Bon Appétit, Better Homes & Gardens, Cooking Light, Fine Cooking, Town & Country, and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of several best-selling cookbooks, including Weber’s Real Grilling™ (which has sold almost one million copies to date), Weber’s Charcoal Grilling™, and his newest, New York Times best-seller book, Weber’s Way to Grill™.
Purviance has appeared on several national television shows including Today, The Early Show, Good Morning America, Fox & Friends, and the Oprah Winfrey Show—as well as on PBS, CNN, the History Channel, and the Food Network. As a regular contributor to national newspapers and magazines—and a popular teacher at cooking schools across the country—Purviance has helped millions of people to grill like professionals. Purviance is also certified by the Kansas City Barbecue Society and serves as a judge for the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest in addition to other major competitions.
Purviance lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife and three children. He cooks almost every day on at least one of his six grills.
Steven Raichlen is a journalist, TV host, and multi-award-winning author—but he may be best known as the man who reinvented barbecue. Raichlen wrote the best-selling Barbecue Bible cookbook series (with more than 4 million copies in print). Raichlen has appeared on virtually every major national TV show, from Today, Good Morning America, and CNN to the Oprah Winfrey Show, The View, and Live with Regis and Kelly. In 2000, in partnership with Weber Grills, he created Barbecue University, a unique cooking school held at the luxurious Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs, which was hailed by the Food Network as the “#1 Barbecue Experience in the U.S.” Raichlen also battled—and defeated—Iron Chef Roksbura Michiba in a “Battle of the Barbecue Gods” on Japanese television.
In 1975, Raichlen received a Watson Foundation Fellowship to study medieval cooking in Europe, as well as a Fulbright to study comparative literature. He holds a degree in French literature from Reed College and trained at the Cordon Bleu and La Varenne cooking schools in Paris. Raichlen lives with his wife, Barbara, in Miami, Florida.
Weber Grill Master Series (1 of 3): Inspiration
Weber Grill Master Series (2 of 3): Cooking with Live Fire
Weber Grill Master Series (3 of 3): Grilling Mistakes
Jamie Purviance (pronounced Purr-VIE-ance) graduated from Stanford University and the Culinary Institute of America (with high honors) before launching his career as a food writer for major publications such as Bon Appétit, Better Homes & Gardens, Cooking Light, Fine Cooking, Town & Country, and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of several best-selling cookbooks, including Weber’s Real Grilling™ (which has sold almost one million copies to date), Weber’s Charcoal Grilling™, and his newest, New York Times best-seller book, Weber’s Way to Grill™.
Purviance has appeared on several national television shows including Today, The Early Show, Good Morning America, Fox & Friends, and the Oprah Winfrey Show—as well as on PBS, CNN, the History Channel, and the Food Network. As a regular contributor to national newspapers and magazines—and a popular teacher at cooking schools across the country—Purviance has helped millions of people to grill like professionals. Purviance is also certified by the Kansas City Barbecue Society and serves as a judge for the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest in addition to other major competitions.
Purviance lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife and three children. He cooks almost every day on at least one of his six grills.
Steven Raichlen is a journalist, TV host, and multi-award-winning author—but he may be best known as the man who reinvented barbecue. Raichlen wrote the best-selling Barbecue Bible cookbook series (with more than 4 million copies in print). Raichlen has appeared on virtually every major national TV show, from Today, Good Morning America, and CNN to the Oprah Winfrey Show, The View, and Live with Regis and Kelly. In 2000, in partnership with Weber Grills, he created Barbecue University, a unique cooking school held at the luxurious Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs, which was hailed by the Food Network as the “#1 Barbecue Experience in the U.S.” Raichlen also battled—and defeated—Iron Chef Roksbura Michiba in a “Battle of the Barbecue Gods” on Japanese television.
In 1975, Raichlen received a Watson Foundation Fellowship to study medieval cooking in Europe, as well as a Fulbright to study comparative literature. He holds a degree in French literature from Reed College and trained at the Cordon Bleu and La Varenne cooking schools in Paris. Raichlen lives with his wife, Barbara, in Miami, Florida.
