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Serious Sandwiches: Squeeze Burger with Cheese Skirt
Photograph from entitee on Flickr One of my favorite parts of doing a sandwich column is that now all my family members send me photos of ridiculous sandwiches from all around the country. Take this one, for example, which my brother in law sent me from Sacramento. The Squeeze Burger with Cheese Skirt, as it is widely known in and around California's capital, is clearly a feat of modern engineering. And while the actual burger that is hidden underneath there (somewhere) is not necessarily anything to write home about, this sandwich has many other secrets that make it quite the serious sandwich....Have Hardee's and Carl's Jr. Gone Too Far (Or Big)?
As most people know, we love fat in just about all its forms here at Serious Eats. We love bacon, barbecue, butter, lardo, guanciale, prime dry-aged beef, Wagyu beef, burgers, lard, prosciutto, cheese, and pastrami. But we try to advocate consuming these ultradelicious fatty foods in moderation. According to a provocative, eye-opening, and artery-clogging story in the new, hip business culture magazine Portfolio, the folks at Carl's Jr. and Hardee's don't feel a similar need. If they had their way, we'd consume half-pound hamburgers topped with, among other things, a hot dog, early and often. Consider the opening paragraph of the story:...2007: The Year in Food Trends
Warning: This post is filled with food punditry. Everybody fancies himself a food pundit these days. And why not? We all like to eat, and we all like to think and talk about food. And there's plenty to talk about. Food is all over the news everywhere you look. The only thing we need is a cable network that would put us on the air to do all of the above. So until that day comes, you and I can do our food punditing and prognosticating right here, starting now. Trends I'm in Favor Of Small (Plates) Really Are Beautiful Small plates mean we get to more carefully calibrate how much and what we eat. This is most assuredly a...How Hamburgers Are Made
The secrets of hamburger production are revealed with this new T-shirt from Threadless. All it takes is a cow, a winged gnome-fairy creature wielding a magic wand, and in a poof of red smoke—TA-DA—instant burger! (A few steps may have been left out and/or altered in the design of the shirt.)...Thomas Keller Plans Burger Joint (and Much More)
Uber-chef Thomas Keller, French Laundry and Per Se overlord, is getting into the butcher, burger, and frozen entrée business, according to Bloomberg News. Can this notorious control freak pull all these new businesses off? I think the answer is yes, though there will certainly be some bumps along the way. For Keller, like the Mario Batalis and Tom Colicchios of the world, restaurants are much harder to clone and open because they require a lot of talented, experienced, and skilled people. So it becomes much harder to open another Per Se or even another Bouchon, because each of them has so many moving parts. But a burger place (even one called Burgers and Bottles) is a much simpler proposition....Did You Watch the 'Bon Appétit' Food Network Special?
I'll admit it. We didn't go out this past Saturday night, so I found myself watching the Bon Appétit Best American Restaurants special hosted by Alton Brown on the Food Network. The show itself was reasonably entertaining, though no one would call it suspenseful. Brown is perhaps my favorite Food Network personality, but he looked totally bored and disengaged on this particular show. Andrew Knowlton and Barbara Fairchild of Bon Appétit were knowledgeable and credible as the magazine's on-camera experts, but they kept talking about passion without exhibiting very much themselves....Cook the Book: Burgers
Whenever a guidebook like Ian Jackman's Eat This! comes out, it seems like the natural inclination of anyone who loves food is to jump to the sections that matter most to him or her. It's a quick way to figure out where the writer stands and whether your tastes mesh. If they do, you're more likely to trust him on other items or locations you might not know firsthand. I paged through immediately to Jackman's chapter on burgers, and he namechecks most of the heavyweights in American burgerdom: Louis' Lunch in New Haven, Connecticut, the Apple Pan in Los Angeles, and the burgers I grew up on in suburban Kansas City—Winstead's. More burger goodness follows, but for now, I'll remind...The Best Fried Chicken in the World Might Be at Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken
When you love fried chicken as much as I do you get really bugged when Bon Appétit announces its three finalists in its search for the best fried chicken in the U.S. and Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken is not on the list. Not that the other three contenders, Blackberry Farm (Walland, Tennessee), Price's Chicken Coop (Charlotte, North Carolina), and Willa Mae's Scotch House (New Orleans) are not worthy of serious consideration. I have written lovingly of Willa Mae Seaton's wondrous fried chicken in GQ and Business Week. (Those stories don't appear to be online or else I'd link to them.) My friend John T. Edge, whom I trust implicitly in these matters (he did write the book on fried...We're Havin' a Burger Party! And You're Invited
The Gothamist-AHT/SE QBQ BBQ II Photograph courtesy of Jason Perlow Last year, Serious Eats burger site A Hamburger Today teamed up with Gothamist for the Gothamist-AHT QBQ (that's Quality Before Quantity), we've decided to team up with them again this year for another burger bash at Water Taxi Beach in Long Island City, Queens. At last year's event, chef Harry Hawk served four regional burgers from around the nation. We're doing something similar this year, but this time you get to choose which burgers will be served, with the top three vote-getters across Gothamist and A Hamburger Today/Serious Eats making the menu. Some are regional specialties, and some are original Water Taxi Beach creations. I'll get to the candidate burgers...Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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