There would be the smell of backyard cookouts, and the sound of football games on television.

For other toe-tapping diners, it was a plateful of black culture, a taste of church suppers, backyard cookouts and old-fashioned, black hospitality.

Punk's Backyard Grill was a contemporary version of the classic American backyard cookout.

"Oh, we're redoing the yard," we would say to our guests at backyard cookouts, as if the wasteland in which they were standing were part of some elaborate plan.

After the shoot, Nordeman joined the surfers for a backyard cookout.

They make charcoal, the kind that people use for backyard cookouts and industries use as filters.

They make their way to backyard cookouts, into beachfront picnics and onto the menus of the comfortable, California-casual restaurants Santa Barbara favors.

Levittown was satirized as a desert of bingo, bowling and backyard cookouts.

We've drunk vodka together at backyard cookouts and in a Leningrad hotel.

Number 778 liked having a backyard cookout with his wife, or playing with his three children.