Try the award-winning recipes created for the World Food Championships! Over 250 recipes for the world's best burgers, buns, sauces, spreads, and toppings - Component guide provides easy reference to every type of burger, bun, topping, and sauce found throughout the recipes, so you can mix-and-match your own delicious creations - Winning recipes from the WFC are being shared for the first time ever, for home cooks and aspiring chefs to replicate in the kitchen - Stunning photos of each finished recipe, taken just moments after final plate submissions from the kitchen arena - Behind the scenes of the World Food Championships, competition rules, an interview with WFC CEO Mike McCloud, QR codes to videos of intense kitchen arena cooking, chef bios, and more Burgers & Bacon Cookbook from World Food Championships (WFC) features award-winning recipes created for the cutthroat world of food competitions! At WFC, the best of the best — aspiring and established chefs, home chefs, and professional competition teams — compete for cash prizes and notoriety. For the first time, those winning secret recipes are shared in this amazing cookbook! This is a must-have for home cooks, culinary students, backyard self-proclaimed grill masters, sous chefs, and food enthusiasts. Over 250 incredible recipes are featured, inspired by cooking practices and spice combinations of the competitors from all over the world — from burgers made with rich Wagyu beef and pork chorizo and a Surf 'n' Turf burger that includes shrimp to tantalizing Bourbon Maple Bacon Cupcakes with delicious peach compote, a Bacon Bliss Pizza Pie, and an Indian-inspired version of the classic BLT. You'll also find a secondary table of contents that acts as a reference guide so you can pick and choose a different meat, bun, topping, and sauce combination if you want to create your own culinary masterpiece. Create the perfect pairings for any dish with recipes for aiolis, cheese sauces, soups, sides, chutneys, homemade buns, bases, sauces, spreads, special toppings, homemade dressings, seasonings, marinades, sweet treats, and more. Elevate your home creations with new ingredients, new methods of preparation, and new combinations! The recipes provide family serving sizes as well as tips for using easy-to-find substitutions, so every recipe can be affordable and possible for the home cook, even if you don't have access to specialty ingredients. QR codes are also included, linking you to the excitement only found in the World Food Championships kitchen arena! There are delicious options for everyone and to fulfill any craving at your dinner table, including vegetarian and plant-based recipes, as well as desserts, seafood, comfort food, internationally inspired cuisine, and more. Make over 250 award-winning recipes from the food arena, including: Bob Armstrong Burger - The Cantina Burger - Sesame Seared Poke Burger - Fiesta Street Corn Burger - Country Fried Thanksgiving Impossible Burger - Savory Bacon Bread Pudding Souffle with Tomato Choron - Bacon and Crab Gumbo Cake with Spicy Bacon and Tomato Bisque - Double-Glazed Bacon Ramen - Chocolate Chip Bourbon Bacon Pecan Crunch Cake - And much more! Create burgers and bacon recipes at home that won awards at the ultimate food sport event, with Burgers & Bacon Cookbook ! A very comprehensive book on grilling, burgers and bacon. I especially enjoyed the Bacon Bliss Pizza and the Udon (never thought to try Udon and bacon before). I don't normally grill or prepare burgers, but I do like a thin, crispy bacon and this book delivers on the bacon. - NetGalley After all these years in the industry, I finally had the honor of judging the WFC in 2023. It was amazing to watch the chefs create such an unbelievable array of burgers with so many techniques and flavors, from the perfect meat blends and the world's greatest cheeses to creative toppings, sauce injectors, and the most perfect buns ever! Now, go make the greatest burger you've ever made! - Chef Brian Duffy The book is full of not only burgers, but sauces, condiments, and toppings for the luscious burgers. There is something in this book for everyone, including vegetarians. - NetGalley This book is absolutely packed with recipes from the World Food Championships from professional teams as well as home chefs and aspiring chefs. The book includes a wonderful reference chart to pair recipes with sides, aiolis and more. I loved the special toppings and the section on sweet treats, sauces and creams. The recipes are so detailed for everything you need including family sizes and alternative ingredients which helped make the combinations easier for us at home, and affordable for our budget. - NetGalley This would be a good book for those who are interested in this competition or who are really in to burgers and/or bacon and creative ways to cook them. Because these are food competition recipes, I don't know that most home cooks would recreate enough things in here as