Memorial Day is just around the corner, folks! In honor of the holiday that officially kicks off summer barbecue season, we thought we’d go to the Grillmaster himself, Bobby Flay, for some of his best tips for backyard barbecues. Check out the excerpt at the end of the post for more tips and delicious recipes from Bobby’s new cookbook, Bobby Flay’s Barbecue Addiction (Clarkson Potter, April 2013).

Alex Guarnaschelli has done it all. She is the executive chef at Butter and The Darby in New York City, she is a judge on Chopped, won The Next Iron Chef, hosted Alex’s Day Off, and has appeared on many more Food Network shows, and most recently, she wrote her first cookbook, Old-School Comfort Food (Clarkson Potter, April 2013).

Get excited, Bobby Flay fans! His new cookbook, Bobby Flay’s Barbecue Addiction, doesn’t come out until April 23rd, but we have a special one-month-countdown sneak peek of a recipe from the book. Bobby Flay’s Barbecue Addiction presents Bobby’s secrets for cooking anything and everything on the grill—from quickly grilled steaks and seafood to smoky barbecued ribs and fork-tender pulled pork. Check out this recipe for Grilled Mango with Lime, Salt, and Ancho Powder and enjoy the addictive combination of sweet, sour, salty, and spicy.

The American Heart Association is the nation’s premier authority on heart health. The newest book from the AHA library, Eat Less Salt, makes eating less salt an achievable goal. We recently sat down with the AHA to chat about their new book and how we can all reduce our sodium intake.

Before she was a Food Network star and an internationally bestselling cookbook author, Nigella Lawsonn decided she wanted to be Italian. At the age of 17, she applied to study Italian at Oxford and spent her gap year working as a chambermaid in a family-run pensione in Florence, earning meager wages but learning a wealth of hands-on knowledge in Italian cooking. Today, Nigella brings as much of Italy as she can into her own kitchen, and now she celebrates the pleasures of Italian food in her very first Italian cookbook Nigellissima: Easy Italian-Inspired Recipes (Clarkson Potter, February 2013). We recently sat down with Nigella and asked her a few questions about this very exciting cookbook.