Father's Day Gift Guide - Part II

Here's is the next edition of our Father's Day Gift Guide aimed at those dads who love to light up the grill.

Feasting on Asphalt: The River Run
The perfect Father’s Day gift for the armchair traveler and foodie - Feasting on Asphalt: The River Run - is equal parts travel diary, photo journal and cookbook. Alton Brown and his motorcycle-mounted crew travel along the Mississippi, scouting out the very best of roadside food and getting to know the people who spend their lives preparing it. Brown samples big-city eateries and small-town chat ’n’ chews, as well as markets, inns, ice cream parlors, museums, BBQ joints—and even an alligator farm. Recipes include Louisiana-style Grilled Alligator Tail, Pecan-Coconut Pie, BBQ Pork Ribs (Brown eats them over pancakes) and Illinois Riverside Fried Catfish. A quirky tour of America’s foodways and folkways, we’re not sure which part’s best -- the odyssey, the recipes or the commentary. Regardless, it’s all great reading!

Steven Raichlen's Best of BBQ Beer-Can Chicken Rack
We’ve never met a guy who didn’t love everything about cooking and eating beer-can chicken! That may explain why this rack and drip pan make the foolproof Father’s Day gift for nearly every dad. Another reason it’s perfect is the Stainless-Steel Beer-Can Chicken Rack with Drip Pan itself, which ensures a safe and easy process – with the end product of amazingly moist chicken with incredible flavor.

In case you’ve never witnessed the process, you simply clean the bird and place it with the rear end over an open can of beer (juice, wine, etc.), legs down -- so the bird stands upright like a tri-pod for cooking. Then set the whole thing on the grill (and watch your hubby grin while he does it!). Some might think this sounds a little gross (and the women at this office tend to agree!). But not to worry, you’ll never have to touch it – it’s a guy thing, and they will love every minute of it!