Notes from the Burger Underground: Media Roundup
This month’s edition of Notes from the Burger Underground is an overview of burger news and reviews that have appeared in major media outlets. Enjoy. This is the Roman Burger from M Burger in...
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Notes from the Burger Underground: Five the Hard Way
Five the Hard Way A Guide to Burger Best Practices The Straight Beef just celebrated its fourth year and 50th official review. Over that time we have compiled some burgiatric wisdom. Restaurateurs and burger...
Burgiatry Breakthrough!
Durham’s Ninth Street Bakery Offers Brioche Bun There is one ingredient that always makes food taste better. It’s called “love.” It’s also called “butter.” And when there’s love and butter, magic happens. That magic...
Notes from the Burger Underground: Los Angeles Times Crowns Winner in Battle of the Burgers
Would You Eat It? The Los Angeles Times has wrapped up its third annual Battle of the Burgers (click link for recipes), crowning five winners from hundreds of entries. Recipes were whittled down...
Work Those Buns!
The Straight Beef’s recent Podcast #4 raised the critical issue of whether or not a patty melt is a legitimate hamburger. The answer to that question hangs on one’s belief in the importance of...
Burgatory from Pittsburgh is the new Burger Brackets Champion
BurgerBusiness.com, the burger industry insider trade magazine, hosts a March Madness-style burger championship throwdown. This year’s winner is Burgatory, a two-restaurant chain from Pittsburgh. Burgatory defeated a host of industry stalwarts to win. Who...
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...
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...