Author Nancy Loseke developed recipes and wrote a cookbook for Traeger, which is the leading retailer of wood pellet grills and smokers. For many years now, she's also created recipes, written blog posts, and edited content for Steven Raichlen's Barbecue Bible website.

Foreword writer Steven Raichlen has written more than 30 barbecue books, including the international bestseller The Barbecue Bible. His books have won 5 James Beard Awards and 3 IACP-Julia Child Awards and been translated into 17 languages. An award-winning journalist, Raichlen has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Esquire, GQ, and all the major food magazines. In 2015, he was inducted into the Barbecue Hall of Fame.