Haute Dogs: Recipes for Delicious Hot Dogs, Buns, and Condiments

by Russell van Kraayenburg, Russell van Kraayenburg (Photographer)

Overview

Elevate your hot dogs with this creative and informative cookbook including recipes for both classic and adventurous sausages, buns, and condiments, as well as gorgeous photos and detailed history for each recipe

The classic cookout staple gets a fresh and tasty twist, with recipes inspired by everything from south-of-the-border BBQ to Japanese fusion to modern food-cart cuisine. Handcraft your own top-notch dogs, buns, and condiments with step-by-step from-scratch instructions and beautiful photos for inspiration.

Each of these hot dog styles from around the world is accompanied by an in-depth look at history and tasty traditions. The perfect summer cookbook, this indispensable guide will make your grilling extraordinary.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594746802
Publisher:	Quirk Publishing
Publication date:	04/29/2014
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	168
File size:	17 MB
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About the Author

Born and raised in Texas, Russell van Kraayenburg may sit you down for a stern lecture if you confuse barbecue with grilling. His blog Chasing Delicious was a Saveur finalist for 2012’s best baking and desserts blog, and his work has been featured on such sites as Lifehacker, Co. Design, Business Insider, The Kitchn, Live Originally, The Daily What, Quipsologies, Neatorama, Explore, and Fine Cooking, among many other personal, cooking, design, and art blogs.

Editorial Reviews

05/15/2014
Hot dog-obsessed blogger van Kraayenburg (chasingdelicious.com) uses unique toppings, quality ingredients, and carefully chosen cooking methods to elevate hot dogs into "haute dogs." Like Holly Schmidt and Allan Penn's Wieners Gone Wild, this cookbook includes history, cooking basics, and recipes for buns and condiments. Unlike many similar titles, it also includes recipes for a dozen types of homemade hot dogs and sausages. Regional variations like the spicy South African sausage roll and the New York system wiener can be assembled from store-bought or homemade components, and they're only challenging when made entirely from scratch. VERDICT A contemporary guide to gourmet hot dogs. Highly recommended.

Library Journal

06/09/2014
An admitted hot dog lover since the age of seven, food blogger Van Kraayenburg shares his love of hot dogs in all their incarnations in this collection of inspired twists on what many may consider to be a one-note dish. Obsessives can certainly follow Van Krayenburg down the rabbit hole to create their own all-beef hot dogs, bratwurst, and buns, but carnivores simply in search of some ideas to jazz up the basic dog will benefit the most from Van Krayenburg's tutelage, who shares tips on creating the Danger Dog, a Mexican riff that calls for wrapping the weiner in bacon and frying it before dressing it with chili; the Columbian Pineapple Dog; or the Swedish Shrimp Dog, an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach that tops the dog with mashed potatoes, pickle mayo, shrimp salad, onions, ketchup, mustard and lettuce. Purists will appreciate classics like the Chicago Dog, with its iconic sport peppers, Washington D.C. style Half-Smoke and the summertime favorite, the basic corn dog. Whether or not the world really needs instructions on how to prepare a chili cheese dog or bratwurst is debatable, but Van Kraayenburg's enthusiasm for the topic and eye for detail is infectious. Casual consumers can probably pass this one up but obsessives will appreciate the book's global approach. (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly

As fun to browse through as it is unique to plan menus with, Haute Dogs will prove to be an enduringly popular and much appreciated addition to any personal, family, professional, or community library cookbook collection.” –Midwest Book Review

“If fashion can have haute couture, food can have haute dogs.”—The Columbian

“Definitely a book to savor.”—The Sun News
 
“There's more than one way to cook a dog and this book has more than 100 mouth-watering recipes to show you how.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Not just another pretty novelty item, this is a serious book about taking a household favorite and making it worthy of primetime.”—Retailing Insight

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