A man can eat just so much prime time brisket.
Puck plans on roasting a whole Sonoma lamb with spiced lamb ribs, quinoa, cucumber salad and saffron raita; Mallmann is cooking a whole rib-eye on the bone and a Scottish salmon over an open fire; and BBQ king Lang will make a 12-hour pit-roasted prime beef brisket and short ribs over burning pecan wood.
BEST DISHES Brisket; prime rib; beer can game hen; Kreuz sausages; baked beans; cucumber salad.
A Mount Everest of prime, thin-sliced brisket with potato latkes ($14.95) restored smiles all around, as did cholent, a muscular, central European Jewish cassoulet of beef, potatoes, barley, kidney and lima beans, onions and garlic slowly cooked in a pot.
Mesquite-smoked brisket, cabrito, prime rib, pork ribs, sausage.
It's for the cook-it-yourself barbecues, wonderful feasts of meat in which you grill anything from ox tongues and marinated pork to brisket and prime sirloin, all at your table.
Ensure that the brisket has a "prime" or "choice" label.
Select your beef brisket.
Select a whole brisket, sometimes called a "packer brisket" at the store.
BARBECUED BRISKET Five pounds of prime beef, tender, well-seasoned and fully cooked, from Lobel's is $139.95; lobels.com, (877) 783-4512 (Dec. 14).
