Tuesday's Cookbook Finds- May 14th 2013

Burger Bar: Build Your Own Ultimate Burgers

By: Hubert Keller



Chef Hubert Keller is known for elevating the ordinary burger into an extraordinary culinary pleasure. As the owner and chef of the Burger Bar restaurants in Las Vegas and St. Louis, Keller serves the finest quality burgers to thousands of satisfied diners—from teenagers to top chefs. Now, the man who led the charge in America's burger revolution shares his secrets in Burger Bar: Build Your Own Ultimate Burgers, showing you how to create your own mouthwatering, irresistible burgers.

In this cookbook, Keller expands on the "build-your-own" theme that has been such a success in his restaurants. Inside you will find a collection of 50 tantalizing recipes that show how to transform even plain ground chuck into body- and soul-satisfying burgers. The chapters include recipes with a focus on beef, other meats like lamb and bison, poultry, fish, even vegetarian burgers.

The recipes are an amazing display of Keller's burger mastery: the crowd-pleasing Blue-Cheese Stuffed Bacon Sliders, the simple but inventive Black Jack Burger with Black Angus beef and Jack cheese, more healthful but delicious Buffalo Burger, the luscious Provencal (Lamb) Burger, a hearty BBQ-style Open-Faced Chicken Burger, and so many more. Burger Bar will impress even die hard meat lovers with recipes for seared tuna, salmon, and shrimp burgers, not to mention hearty vegetarian delights like Southwestern Bean Burger and Roasted Pumpkin-Quinoa Burger.

And don't forget, no burger would be complete without a side of Keller's perfectly crisp French fries or gorgeous vegetable chips—and a rich, frothy milkshake, or fabulously cool cocktail.
One of Keller's specialties-dessert burgers—could soon be yours; his grand finales are shared with the details to help you make them at home. With some advance planning, the S'mores Burger—an eye-opening evolution of the classic marshmallow and chocolate treat—will be a hit with your family. In the whimsical Chocolate-Hazelnut Burger, rich chocolate ganache forms the burger, while a mango gelee is the lovely surprise that seems to be cheese, fresh mint serves as lettuce, and kiwi as pickles!

Illustrated throughout with gorgeous color photographs by Bill Milne, Burger Bar is the ultimate cookbook for anyone who wants to create their own iconic burgers at home—and become a legend at the next backyard barbecue.