Summer grilling made easy with great recipes for burgers and sides

At Mad About Chocolate, his Williamsburg cafe and sweet shop, Marcel Desaulniers often grills vegetables to use in the savory cheesecakes he serves at lunch.

But 20 years ago, the former Trellis Restaurant chef and co-owner was focused on outdoor grilling on a large-scale when he assembled “The Burger Meisters,” a fundraiser cookbook for the Culinary Institute of America. Subtitled “America’s best chefs give their recipes for America’s best burgers, plus the fixin’s,” the cookbook brought together more than 130 recipes for burgers and sides created by 46 CIA graduates.