WaterCourse Foods Tempeh Burgers

WaterCourse Foods in Denver, Colorado, a long-standing vegan comfort food restaurant, has a locally revered veggie burger. Their recipe has since changed, but chef Rachel Kresley and manager Callie Liddell graciously offered this earlier iteration for this book’s first edition—it uses tempeh to delicious effect. It’s a study in umami, with Worcestershire, arame, and liquid smoke uniting to create something that one can only call—and I don’t use this word ve