Most cookout lists are long because they hedge. This one is short because it assumes you would rather have four good things than twelve average ones. Print it, or do not, but the order of it matters.
Hosting and Feeding a Crowd
How Much Beef Per Person? A Simple Guide for Any Gathering
Half a pound of raw boneless beef per adult. That is the number to plan from, and almost everything else is an adjustment to it.
Hosting and Feeding a Crowd
How to Feed a Crowd With Beef
Cooking for four is about the food. Cooking for twenty is about the order you do things in. The cooks who make it look easy are not better at steak.
Hosting and Feeding a Crowd
How to Host a Steak Dinner Party
Steak is the hardest thing to serve a table and the best thing to serve a table, and the difference is entirely in the planning. Six people, one cut, one rest. Here is how it goes.
Hosting and Feeding a Crowd
How to Plan a Backyard Cookout
A cookout goes wrong in the week before it, not on the day.
Hosting and Feeding a Crowd
How to Set Up a Burger Bar
A burger bar is not a theme. It is a staffing decision. You cook one thing well, everyone else does the rest, and you get to stand with a drink instead of taking twelve separate orders.
Hosting and Feeding a Crowd
Steak Dinner for Two: A Complete Plan
Two people is the easiest steak dinner there is and the one most often rushed. Nothing is competing for the pan and nothing is competing for your attention.
