BORN TO GRILL

This time of year—or actually anytime, really—you’ll find author and chef Matt Moore standing at one of his four grills nearly every night of the week at his restored East Nashville home. In his latest book, Serial Griller: Grillmaster Secrets for Flame-Cooked Perfection (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), he spells out an obsession with cooking over flames that started in childhood—Moore comes from a long line of serial grillers. One grandfather was a butcher, the other was a cattleman, and, he writes, “Rarely a day would pass that Mama and Daddy wouldn’t fire up the grill in our hometown in Lilburn, Georgia, stepping out on the brick patio they had laid by hand to cook our family supper.”

This book is part recipe collection, part travelogue, part tribute to serial grillers everywhere. Similar to his last book, , this one spotlights experts from around the country—from cousins Bill and the