Jeff Phillips is the creator of the smokin' hot website smoking-meat.com. With more than 300 pages of recipes and tutorials, 34,000 forum members and 140,000 subscribers to its monthly e-newsletter, smoking-meat.com is the highest ranking website on Smoking Meat in the world. Born in North Carolina and raised on southern cooking, Jeff started practicing the art of smoking while still a teenager. He lives in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, on a 10-acre farm with his wife and three children.