PornBurger: Hot Buns and Juicy Beefcakes

“Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.” – Anthony BourdainIf I hadn’t been wooed to buy this book by a goodreads friend's glowing review ([...]...), I wouldn’t have been dreaming of holding this book in my hands, but I ordered it, and it arrived even more glorious in person. It arrived just in time for me to share it with everyone on Sunday, but only after I had taken a picture of the “Cheeseburger Pop Tart” and sent it to my Junk Food loving son. He promptly replied with “Dear God” and questioned if that was breakfast.I laughed. I drooled (although not so much over Cheeseburger Pop Tarts). I dreamed.The names alone are reason enough to be intrigued by this book, which really is a cookbook with amazing recipes. You probably won’t want to prepare these for every day breakfast, lunch and dinner – I take that back, you might / probably will *want* to, but I suspect these are not all “low cal” recipes.These are all worthy of note, these two are the ones I'm choosing for this review: The “Wake ‘n Bacon” which features a maple-bacon wrapped burger, slices of melted cheddar between two apple fritter doughnuts and drizzled with a caffeinated maple=espresso syrup, and the “Mac Daddy Burger, featuring a lobster burger with bacon with a Mac and Cheese Bun. Yes, there is a recipe and instructions for making a bun for your burger out of macaroni and cheese.There’s more. Pork Burgers. Lamb Burgers. Venison Burgers. Lobster burgers.Fried Chicken.Condiments. Two mustard based recipes and four ketchup-based recipes.Grilled Pineapple Butter.Bacon Jam.Bacon Peanut Butter.Sausage Gravy.Maybe you think you don’t need this, maybe you’ve been happy with your fried chicken or your sausage gravy. Maybe just the section on cuts of meat, preparations, etc. will be what interests you.And then there are the photographs. Really, people take pictures of food they’ve ordered, made, etc., and rarely does it look appealing. The photographs are perfect. Food photography is an art in itself, and Mathew Ramsey gets it oh-so right.

Beautiful photography, intriguing burger combos/constructs. Bought this as a father's day gift for our son-in-law, a CIA trained chef, who owns (along with his wife/our daughter, who manages) the award-winning 'urban chic' Street Burger restaurant on Kauai in Hawaii. FB: Street Burger Kauai [...]

A customer at the restaurant I work at showed me this book and I fell in love with it. Each recipe has at least one unusual ingredient, but they tell you how to make them rather than some cookbooks that tell you to use some obscure ingredient and you’re like, where do I get that?!?

Aside from the title of this book, this is a great addition to a library of recipes. This was purchased as a gift for a relative. When one in my family saw my purchase, they were taken aback from the title. Shortly thereafter, they were won over after I produced a meal from one of the recipes!!! Great recipes, great read, great gift!!!

Great for beginners or advance cooks! Best burger book I have EVER seen or had, and I have been a chef for over 12 years. Great buy!!!!

After years of following the blog posts, I was overly excited to see this compiled into a book, the pictures, recipes, and style will be sure to capture hours of your time

I love the creativity,

Some awesome burgers in the book, though the only downside is there are some components of the burgers that have no instructions on how to make it, but other then that this book is incredible.

Bought this as a present. Really nicely laid out book. Some of the pictures don't have recipes with them though which disappointed my friend a little.

I bought this for my parents who are both are experienced chef's, but I'm tempting to use it for myself, as the burgers are pretty badass.

great present for burger lovers

A well received gift. The recipies looked enticing.

Great price and delivery