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The Great Big Burger Book: 100 New and Classic Recipes for Mouthwatering Burgers Every Day Every Way (Non)

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Although I have eaten my share of burgers, I have always thought of them as boring. You grill them, slap on a slice of cheese, a tomato slice, whatever sauce you like and eat on a soft and often tasteless bun.

Well....along comes The Great Big Burger Book and with it a whole new dimension on just what constitutes a burger. Certainly there are the traditional meat (beef, pork, veal and even lamb) burgers, but my interest was piqued by the chapter entitled: Burgers That Take Flight: Chicken, Turkey and Duck. Using ground poultry allows you to cut the fat content of a burger and the recipes don't cut the taste and flavor. I have always enjoyed Chicken Marsala and when I saw the recipe for Chicken Marsala Burgers, I immediately tried it. Your family and guests, not to mention yourself will really like that one. The photo of a Bolognese Turkey Burger with Sun-Dried Tomatoes and Green Olives looks delicious, and I'm happy to report that it also tastes as good as it looks.

But the book doesn't stop there. There is an entire chapter dedicated to burgers made with fish and shell fish. I haven't tried them yet as the weather here in Maine has been just awful this spring, and this type of burger should be cooked outdoors. But there are recipes for lobster and scallop burgers and since I love both, I plan to try them as soon as Mother Nature cooperates.

For vegetarians, there are recipes using portobello mushrooms,falafel, quinoa, tofu, eggplant and chickpeas, to mention a few. That chapter fittingly is entitled: Redefining the Burger.

Admittedly, there are ingredients that may be unfamiliar to the reader. For those people (and I am one), there is a glossary of ingredients and an ingredient source list which tells you where you can find the products that may not be available in your area.

This is a wonderful resource for entertaining. Your guests will be amazed by your culinary expertise when you serve them a healthy burger packed with new flavors. Your backyard menus will never be the same or 'boring' anymore!

I originally bought this book for the vegetarian recipes, but after making some of the meat recipes for a dinner party I have started eating meat again. I use these recipes all the time! GREAT BOOK. I wanted to buy this for all my friends and family, but I don't want them to know my secrets!!! Highly recommend!!!!

This little book has been really helpful in adding some variety to our grilling. The book is divided up nicely into catagories by meat. Lot's of pictures and all fairly simple to make. We have enjoyed a few recipes from this book and look forward to experimenting with some more.

This book is the best. Short recipies, most on only one page complete with an introduction to the recipe, accompaniments, serving suggestions, tips and resources for hard to find ingredients this book has it all. This is a collection of recipes from some of the greatest burger restaurants in the country like, P.J. Clarke's, Hut's Hamburgers, Mel's Drive-In and so many more. Wether you love beef, pork, veal, lamb, turkey, chicken or duck, you got the best recipies at your fingers. Legal Seafoods Tuna Burger, is "to die for" and it's here along with other fish, crab, lobster scallops and shrimp favorites. Veggie burgers never tasted better. This book is a must have for anyone that loves to cook, entertain and eat.

I'm not a big cooking type, but I love grilling, and this book hits the spot. Easy to follow and with exciting but easy to find ingredients. GREAT GIFT IDEA - finally, this year I won't be panicking for Father's Day, X-Mas, etc.

If you're looking for a Burger cookbook then I really don't think you can do better than The Great Big Burger Book. This is an extremely well laid out and well organized cookbook of burgers. Basically the burgers are organized by ingredient: beef, poultry, fish, and veggie.

The recipes are concise and very easy to follow. The Great Big Burger Book offers "serve it up" and "top it off" tips which enable you to create burger masterpieces. You even learn how to properly assemble a burger which is not as easy as one might assume.

Do what The Great Big Burger Book tells you to do and you will probably become the envy of your friends and dinner guests.

Overall, this book is what i wanted in terms of hamburger possiblities. There are some recipes that i wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole, although they are all well written and i think i could pull them all off if i decided to cook them. Good book on hamburgers and overall a good buy.

The collaborative effort of culinary expert Jane Murphy and food writer/recipe tester Liz Yeh Singh, The Great Big Burger Book is packed with one hundred recipes for lip-smacking burgers, ranging from such exotic offers as Shrimp Gumbo Burgers and Japanese Rice Burgers with Chicken Teriyaki, to brussel sprout, apple, and walnut burgers, and more. Recommendations for ingredient sources, along with tips, tricks, and techniques for preparing meat in general, round out this first-rate and highly recommended cookbook for folks of all kitchen skill and experience levels.

Talk about variety! I'm a teacher and I save most of my large-group entertaining for the summer, so I HAD to have this book. Now I can get excited about backyard barbeques! This is a must-have for cooks from novice to expert. I'm going to have to buy another one just to lend out to friends.

I found this book extremely interesting to read and visually exciting. One of the best cook books I've read in a long time.