Maxim: This Pit Barbecue Chicken Recipe Could Upgrade Your Labor Day Weekend Cookout

Famed Tennessee pitmaster Pat Martin isn’t just starring in new episodes of Tastemade’s Barbecue: Life of Fire—where he travels around the country and cooks over live fire with chefs, farmers, and foodies—he’s also serving up a banger of an Alabama-style chicken recipe that just might take your Labor Day grilling to the next level. Martin highly recommends using a brined bird for this recipe excerpted from his book, Life of Fire: Mastering the Arts of Pit-Cooked Barbecue, the Grill, and the Smokehouse.