Barbecue America

This article is about the TV show. For American food and cooking, see Barbecue in the United States.

Barbecue America is a cooking show on American public television that ran from 2003 to 2009.^[1]

Barbecue America
Presented by	Rick Browne
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Original release
Network	PBS
Release	2003 (2003) – 2009 (2009)

In this show, host and series creator Rick Browne, made everything on a grill. He wore a "tablecloth" shirt, actually made from a red and white checked tablecloth. The show was described as a "travelogue" program, in which Browne traveled to a variety of barbecue cook-offs, and exotic locales.^[2]

In 2004 Browne filed a lawsuit alleging that the Food Network had first rejected his proposal for this series, then used the idea for its own similar series starring Bobby Flay.^[3] (Some years later Browne appeared on the Food Network in an episode of Chopped Grill Masters.^[1])

Browne has also published several cookbooks on the subject of grilling.