About
We are R.B. Quinn, a balding eagle scout, and Mindy Merrell, a middle-aged home economist, who live and write in Nashville, Tennessee.
Check out our book, Cheater BBQ: Barbecue Any Time, Anywhere, in Any Weather (Broadway 2008). We’re keeping the cheater lifestyle smoldering in liquid smoke. Here’s to barbecue diversity.





Salads with weighty ingredients, tomatoes and green beans for instance, do much better scattered and layered over a large shallow platter than piled messily in a deep bowl. 