Hailing from Compton, California, author Kevin Bludso quickly became an expert in recipes for Texan favorites, such as rib tips and banana pudding. If you want to master grilled foods with accompanying sides that taste as heavenly as your favorite roadside barbecue stand, Bludso’s BBQ Cookbook is exactly what you need. 

Chef Kevin Bludso shows Guest Host Anthony Anderson and Guillermo how to make pork shoulder and dino ribs, coleslaw, Hennessy on the rocks and he talks about dry vs wet BBQ, his cookbook and building a proper pulled pork sandwich.

Kevin Bludso and Noah Galuten won the restaurant and professional category for cookbooks with Bludso’s BBQ Cookbook: A Family Affair in Smoke and Soul

One of LA’s most well-known barbecue operations is set to expand for the first time in years. Bludso’s BBQ, owned and operated by longtime South LA pitmaster Kevin Bludso, is jumping to Santa Monica with a new location not far from the water.

Kevin Bludso sits at the back of his Bludso’s Bar & Cue between the lunch and dinner rushes on a weekday afternoon, talking about the rich history of Los Angeles’ barbecue traditions.

Kevin Bludso is recognized as one of America's leading pitmasters and is considered a veteran of the BBQ world who also appears as a judge on the hit Netflix show "American Barbecue Showdown." This is a man who once was smoking meats for the OGs of hip-hop. A man who has his own line of BBQ sauces and rubs.

Time is the secret ingredient for transcendent barbecue, but as Kevin Bludso shares in “Bludso’s BBQ Cookbook” made a name for himself with a Texas-style barbecue restaurant in Compton, Calif., but his first book celebrates the family-style cooking and the gifted cooks in his family that made him the chef he is today.