Notes from the Burger Underground
Classic Drive-In Cooking Sometimes you can’t get out to a restaurant when the burger craving hits. The Straight Beef feels your pain. Here, then, is your guide to making classic drive-in and diner style...
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Skillet Burger with Bacon Jam
Skillet, Seattle’s acclaimed diner and food truck empire run by chef Josh Henderson, is known for its extravagant burger. Not extravagant in terms of high-dollar ingredients, but extravagant in the sense of “lacking restraint”...
Renegade Review: Farm Burger (Buckhead, GA)
John, Paul, George, and Ringo didn’t become the Beatles by just dabbling in music. Chipper Jones didn’t become a baseball legend by just occasionally taking grounders. And Gallagher didn’t become a world-renowned comedian by...
Podcast Aweigh!
The Straight Beef is proud to release the first episode of The Straight Beef Podcast. Burgiatry has never been more audible. Click here to subscribe.
Behold the Power of Burgers
In-N-Out president Lynsi Torres is the youngest female billionaire. That’s what serving a great burger can do for you. [Photograph: Robyn Lee] Here’s the Bloomberg profile of Lynsi Torres that ran earlier this week....
Reverend Rants
Reverend Rants The Straight Beef is pleased to announce its new recurring feature, “Reverend Rants,” in which our spiritual guide Reverend Don Corey will seize you by your burgiatric soul and shake it. Hard....
Review #38 – Only Burger (Durham, NC)
(This review is also posted at WRAL Out and About.) BREAKING NEWS Everyone Right About Only Burger, Apparently In a turn of events that shocked no one, world-renowned burgiatrists The Straight Beef finally visited...
Notes from the Burger Underground
I want fries with that! There are two key tomes in the canon of hamburger lore, both published in 2005. It was a banner year for hamburger research. George Motz produced his highly regarded...
Burger, with everything
For writer Duncan Murrell, a burger is memory. “What is it we remember when we remember a hamburger? We remember what we were doing and where we were, and how it felt to be...