Pro tips, BBQ secrets, and wood pellet grilling tricks for using a pellet smoker grill to elevate the flavor of everything, from smoked meats and seafood to vegetables and baked desserts.

What’s the best way to infuse your barbecue with that rich, wood-smoked flavor? This cookbook explains everything you need to know, choosing the best pellet grill flavors, maximizing your smoker-grill's performance, and mastering low and slow smoking as well as cold smoking techniques. Packed with step-by-step BBQ photos and expert grillmaster tips, The Wood Pellet Smoker and Grill Cookbook delivers a lineup of competition-worthy smoked recipes, including:

• Cajun-Style Spatchcock Chicken
• Teriyaki Glazed Smoked Drumsticks
• Hickory-Smoked New York Strip Roast
• Texas BBQ Brisket
• Alder-Smoked Trout
• St. Louis Baby Back Ribs
• Cured Smoked Turkey Legs
• Bacon-Wrapped Cordon Bleu
• Applewood-Smoked Cheese Recipe
• Peach-Blueberry Pellet Grill Cobbler

Peter Jautaikis is the BBQ pit master of the Blog Smokin' Pete's BBQ (smokinpetebbq.com). Pete's recipes and photographs are featured on various forums and barbecue wood pellet and smoker-grill manufacturer websites. He lives in Ripon, CA.