As the grilling season ignites, you can infuse even more flavor into your meat.Toss a few wood chips on the heat or into the smoker box, watch and smell.

Those wisps of smoke are bringing new flavor dimensions from woods like apple, hickory and mesquite.Where there is fire, there should be smoke, and it’s definitely heating up the barbecue scene as avid outdoor cooks experiment with woods, says Jamie Purviance, author of the new “Weber’s Smoke: A Guide to Smoke Cooking for Everyone and Any Grill” (Sunset, $21.95).Purviance says students in his grilling classes are particularly interested in how to use wood when grilling such things as chicken and pork tenderloin for shorter periods, not the traditional “low and slow.”His book covers that plus all of the basics, from the type of charcoal to use to which wood chips go best with certain foods to wood smoking with a gas grill.There are more than 80 recipes, too. Some for the beginner include Hickory-Barbecued Chicken and Mesquite-Grilled Cheeseburgers. More ambitious grillers might try Brined and Maple-Smoked Bacon and Beer-Braised and Mesquite-Smoked Short Ribs.“It’s actually very simple,” Purviance says about using wood smoke. “It’s the way we’ve been cooking since man has been cooking. We just found ways to control it.”