Grilling means cooking food directly over a heat source, sealing the food on the outside with a beautifully charred crust while the inside remains tender and juicy. Strictly speaking,barbecuing refers to cooking over indirect heat, under a cover, allowing heat to be conducted around the food as in an oven. Nowadays people use the terms grilling and barbecuing interchangeably, and this book goes along with the trend, taking cttre to specify when the indirect, covered method of cooking is intended.