Unique Barbecue Recipes: Global Grilling at Home
How to Cook World‑Inspired Dishes Using the Northern Barbecue™ Method
If you are a backyard griller who wants to expand your menu beyond burgers, steak, chicken and smoked ribs, but don’t know how to do it, this post is for you.
A lot of cooks eventually get to this position: ready to expand as cook, but not sure how to start. Even if you want to try some unique global live-fire dishes, it can sometimes feel intimidating when you look at it from a single recipe perspective. How do you recreate Korean bulgogi, Jamaican jerk, or Argentinian dishes without any background or tools required?
The key to success when learning global barbecue is to really understand the techniques behind each dish, not just the ingredients or a how-to video.
That’s exactly what the Northern Barbecue™ Method: Foundations in Fire course helps you to learn.
I created Northern Barbecue™ after a 10-year journey down this road. The result is a self-driven curriculum‑based approach that helps backyard cooks explore global flavours through structured, technique‑first learning. Instead of just trying to cook one-off recipes, you learn the principles that make each dish authentic — and then adapt them to your grill, your ingredients, and your style.
It’s a fun approach if you want to learn new things, and best of all, you get to create all kinds of different live-fire cooking set-ups for your global culinary journey.
Why Global Grilling Works at Home
Global grilling at home is a pretty rewarding cultural experience on a number of different levels. First of all, the trademark of a good chef is that they always want to learn more about different techniques, methods and flavour-profile approaches.
What better way than opening yourself up to a world of live-fire cooking? Every culture has its own approach to:
Heat
Marinades, herbs and spices
Timing
Texture
Smoke
Fire management
Once you understand these fundamentals, you can work with global dishes anywhere — even in your own backyard, or on a compact charcoal grill.
How the Northern Barbecue Method™ Helps You Learn Global Cooking Skills
The method breaks global grilling into self-driven learnable modules, such as:
Clay and spice cooking
South American live-fire techniques
Vertical fire architecture and more
Each of the eights modules covers two or more dishes that help to build knowledge, confidence and creativity, all while allowing you to flex your personal grilling style while learning new techniques and global flavours.
The Result of the Foundations in Fire Course
You don’t just follow a recipe — you understand the cultural approach to cooking behind it.
You don’t just copy flavours — you create them based on original methods.
You don’t just grill food — you master live‑fire cooking the way it is done in a global region.
The Northern Barbecue™ Method: Foundations in Fire curriculum is not the kind of course that you follow in the traditional sense. It is a guided approach that you self-drive and self-discover and it is based on the approach that I took to build and enhance my own live-fire cooking skills.
If you want to breathe new life into your backyard barbecue and do it at your own pace (and you want to experience a whole new world of global flavours and techniques), then the Northern Barbecue™ Method is for you.
By Mike Belobradic
Founder of the Northern Barbecue™ Method of Live-Fire Cooking Courses