Must Have Recipes for Grilled or Smoked Prime Rib

Grilled Prime Rib

The English call it roast beef, and for untold generations, a rib roast rotating on a spit in front of a wood fire has represented not just gustatory bliss, but material and spiritual comfort. So essential is roast beef to the British sense of well-being, a special breed of dog was developed in the sixteenth century to turn a treadmill attached to the rotisserie spit. (Before that, the task fell to scullery lads, and later, elaborate clockworks.) Read about some new ideas of how to cook your prime rib by Steven Raichlen and Nancy Loseke.