Life of Fire
Life of Fire follows legendary pitmaster Pat Martin as he travels the country to meet the people who have mastered the old methods of barbecue and the art of live fire cooking. Each episode features a unique style of barbecue or live fire cooking, and Pat will embed himself with pitmasters, chefs, farmers, and some larger than life characters, as they share their own cooking heritage and traditions with him and speak to the importance of keeping those customs alive. Pat will feature different techniques and practices from across the state of Tennessee to Alabama, North Georgia, Virginia, and all the way out to California. There are even some stops to learn about international traditions from places like Greece and Laos along the way. Pat speaks the language of time-honored cooking traditions and is at home in the culture of wood, smoke, and coals to tell the foodways of cooking over fire.
10 episodes
- 1. West Tennessee Whole HogPat Martin opens with his roots in BBQ; he invites Zach Parker and Daryl Ramey to join him in Corinth, Miss. for the thirty-hour process of cooking a whole hog west Tennessee-style.CCMay 6, 2024
- 2. Life Fire Whole TroutPat Martin heads to the Cherokee National Forest in East Tennessee for a day of fly fishing with his old friend, Chef Joseph Lenn; they cook up their fresh catch, over the campfire.CCMay 13, 2024
- 3. Barbecue Pork SteakPat travels to Gainesboro, Tennessee to visit Stockton Farms, a regenerative hog farm, to learn about their operations and to grill up pork steaks with chef Trevor Stockton.CCMay 20, 2024
- 4. Virginia HamPat travels to Richmond, Virginia with his buddy Jason McConnell to visit Professor Tuffy Stone, and gets a history lesson on the origin of American-style barbecue.CCMay 27, 2024
- 5. Chicken & Alabama White SaucePat heads down to Decatur, Alabama to visit Chris Lilly and the storied institution of barbecue, Big Bob Gibson's BBQ; he learns the ins and outs, and the history of a regional delicacy: pit-cooked chicken with Alabama white sauce.CCJun 3, 2024
- 6. Greek Spit Roast LambBack home in Nashville, Pat links up with his pal and local restaurateur Bill Darsinos to enjoy a tradition from the heart of Bill's Greek history and culture: cooking a whole lamb on a spit roast.CCJun 10, 2024
- 7. South Carolina RibsWhen Pat's friends and fellow pitmasters, Bryan Furman and Dr. Howard Conyers, come to town, the guys dig deep into the history of barbecue and moonshine within rural black communities and how they carry that tradition on today.CCJun 17, 2024
- 8. Red Curry Pig's HeadPat heads to the frozen tundra of Minnesota to visit chef Yia Vang and dives into the rich barbecue culture of the Hmong immigrants of the United States; they brave the cold and break nearly-frozen ground to barbecue a whole pig's head in the earth.CCJun 24, 2024
- 9. Bluefin Tuna CollarsPat Martin visits his old buddy Chef Adam Perry Lang in the heart of Los Angeles, where the pair look to new ideas to cook using traditional barbecue methods, using a Texas-style offset smoker to cook a prized catch castoff cut - bluefin tuna collars.CCJul 1, 2024
- 10. Top Block SteakPat Martin travels to a picturesque regenerative cattle farm in California's Santa Maria Valley, to hear firsthand from a young vibrant pitmaster named Nick Preidite who has uncovered the secrets and true history of real Santa Maria barbecue.CCJul 8, 2024
Life of Fire
Life of Fire follows legendary pitmaster Pat Martin as he travels the country to meet the people who have mastered the old methods of barbecue and the art of live fire cooking. Each episode features a unique style of barbecue or live fire cooking, and Pat will embed himself with pitmasters, chefs, farmers, and some larger than life characters, as they share their own cooking heritage and traditions with him and speak to the importance of keeping those customs alive. Pat will feature different techniques and practices from across the state of Tennessee to Alabama, North Georgia, Virginia, and all the way out to California. There are even some stops to learn about international traditions from places like Greece and Laos along the way. Pat speaks the language of time-honored cooking traditions and is at home in the culture of wood, smoke, and coals to tell the foodways of cooking over fire.
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