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Pat Martin opens with his roots in BBQ; he invites Zach Parker and Daryl Ramey to join him in Corinth, Miss. for the thirty-hour process of cooking a whole hog west Tennessee-style.

West Tennessee Whole Hog

Pat Martin heads to the Cherokee National Forest in East Tennessee for a day of fly fishing with his old friend, Chef Joseph Lenn; they cook up their fresh catch, over the campfire.

Life Fire Whole Trout

Pat travels to Gainesboro, Tennessee to visit Stockton Farms, a regenerative hog farm, to learn about their operations and to grill up pork steaks with chef Trevor Stockton.

Barbecue Pork Steak

Pat travels to Richmond, Virginia with his buddy Jason McConnell to visit Professor Tuffy Stone, and gets a history lesson on the origin of American-style barbecue.

Virginia Ham

Pat heads down to Decatur, Alabama to visit Chris Lilly and the storied institution of barbecue, Big Bob Gibson's BBQ; he learns the ins and outs, and the history of a regional delicacy: pit-cooked chicken with Alabama white sauce.

Chicken & Alabama White Sauce

Back home in Nashville, Pat links up with his pal and local restaurateur Bill Darsinos to enjoy a tradition from the heart of Bill's Greek history and culture: cooking a whole lamb on a spit roast.

Greek Spit Roast Lamb

When Pat's friends and fellow pitmasters, Bryan Furman and Dr. Howard Conyers, come to town, the guys dig deep into the history of barbecue and moonshine within rural black communities and how they carry that tradition on today.

South Carolina Ribs

Pat heads to the frozen tundra of Minnesota to visit chef Yia Vang and dives into the rich barbecue culture of the Hmong immigrants of the United States; they brave the cold and break nearly-frozen ground to barbecue a whole pig's head in the earth.

Red Curry Pig's Head

Pat Martin visits his old buddy Chef Adam Perry Lang in the heart of Los Angeles, where the pair look to new ideas to cook using traditional barbecue methods, using a Texas-style offset smoker to cook a prized catch castoff cut - bluefin tuna collars.

Bluefin Tuna Collars

Pat Martin travels to a picturesque regenerative cattle farm in California's Santa Maria Valley, to hear firsthand from a young vibrant pitmaster named Nick Preidite who has uncovered the secrets and true history of real Santa Maria barbecue.

Top Block Steak

Life of Fire follows legendary pitmaster Pat Martin as he travels the country to meet the people who have mastered the old methods of barbecue and the art of live fire cooking. Each episode features a unique style of barbecue or live fire cooking, and Pat will embed himself with pitmasters, chefs, farmers, and some larger than life characters, as they share their own cooking heritage and traditions with him and speak to the importance of keeping those customs alive. Pat will feature different techniques and practices from across the state of Tennessee to Alabama, North Georgia, Virginia, and all the way out to California. There are even some stops to learn about international traditions from places like Greece and Laos along the way. Pat speaks the language of time-honored cooking traditions and is at home in the culture of wood, smoke, and coals to tell the foodways of cooking over fire.

The Best Seasons of Life of Fire

The Best Seasons of Life of Fire

Season 1