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> And, if the OP is after a good book on grilling (not barbecue), I like the
> book "How to Grill." Lots of very good newbie advice there.


Since we're on the subject of books....

For the fundametalists, I would like to point out an unnoticed but enormous
global waste - books. Do you how many books are published in Great Britain
each year? Think of a figure, double it and times by your age: 206,000. More
than any other country in the world. America vomits out 172,000. Oman, by
compararison, publishes seven. Niger, five. That's ~new~ books. And it's an
underestimate. Given an average print run of, say, 5,000, that makes 5.85
billion books a year. Each costs about 1.30 GBP to make. How much cash is
that? How many trees is that? How much trapped CO2 released back into the
atmosphere? How much bleach and chemicals? How much power to run plant, dyes
and glues and packaging and marketing? How much transport? How much effort?

In the UK, we buy 296m books a year and read fewer than a fifth of them.
Paper publishing is a bigger polluter and waster of resources than all the
air miles flown. Every book could be written once and put on the internet.
But the eco-sermonisers never mention any of that. They never go for books.

Rant over

Graeme....proud to work in the world of publishing!!