Hi, this is Jeffrey Cross, Ph.D. also known as "Jay", an American academic living in Tokyo, Japan and an BBQer in my spare time. I grew up in Kansas City (KC), Kansas, USA. I ate home-made BBQ meats from a young age cooked in my backyard by my father on a charcoal Weber grill. I periodically BBQed and grilled food using my father's recipes. After completing a doctorate in chemical engineering in Iowa, I came to Japan in 1992 to do research, where I have worked half of my life in Industry and in Academia. I have cooked BBQ in Tokyo and Kansas City for many years but only recently did I become interested in sharing American BBQ food culture.

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In 2022, I joined the Kansas City BBQ Society (KCBS). I attended the KCBS BBQ judge class and became a KCBS certified BBQ judge. I created this website to share information on BBQ recipes, cooking, eating, including drinks that go well with BBQ. Although there are many great BBQ websites in the USA, in Tokyo the same cuts of meat are not available locally so information on this website is geared to those living in Tokyo and Japan overall. 

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Over the past 30 years, BBQ has become an international food sport with competitions to prepare the best tasting BBQ meats for prize money in North America, Europe and Australia. American-style BBQ places in Japan have also gradually increased over the last 5 years. Although there is info on the internet about BBQ in Japan, most of the info is in the Japanese language. As a result, I created this website and blog to share Tokyo BBQ info. Feel free to send comments on the blog posts or contact me via the contact form.  Depending upon the responses this website receives, I plan to organize local activities to eat and discuss BBQ forming a community.