Posted by Robyn Lee, May 1, 2008 at 5:45 PM
There's something about this photo from Nick Solares's review of Manhattan's Joe Junior that reminds me of a painting. The kind that has yet to hang in a museum because it features...hamburger patties. But look at those juices! The rising steam! Shouldn't a good painting make you hungry? Or did I make that up? I probably did.
Dammit, I'm hungry.
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Posted by Robyn Lee, March 6, 2008 at 5:30 PM
Photograph taken by Sebastien Brion
I sleep better at night knowing that Jim Georgie's is my one-stop destination for donuts, teriyaki, and hamburger. What else do you need in life, really?
Posted by Lia Bulaong, April 30, 2007 at 10:30 AM
Gordon Ramsay is the kind of man that has the words "temper" and "outburst" used in nearly every last thing written about him. The Independent's Jonathan Thompson interviewed Ramsay yesterday to get his reaction on the interviews his former mentor and now long-time nemesis Marco Pierre White's been doing in support of his new book, and of course both "temper" and "outburst" appeared in the piece's very first paragraph. White said "there is a time and a place for McDonald's" and naturally, Ramsay feels quite the opposite:
"Strip a Big Mac back of everything it's filled up with and you've got two bland basics: fat and fodder. When you think of how exciting it is to make a hamburger from a chef's point of view - with ground mince, ketchup, Tabasco and onions - and how easy that is, then why do you have to buy that crap?"
He's got something nasty to say about food critics as well—Frank Bruni of the New York Times, who gave his restaurant two stars but called it uninspired gets the brunt of it, but he's not a fan of the whole lot. [via The Food Section]
Photograph by by AYArktos
Posted by Lia Bulaong, March 22, 2007 at 7:56 AM
The two shirt designs above are the winners of the recent Fast Food Nation contest over at internet t-shirt manufacturer extraordinaire Threadless; the blue shirt's Fast Food Meal by Diego Soares, the red ones Inside You by Matt Palmer. Both are $15/men and $17/women, plus Inside You's also available as a $40 hoodie, if you're so inclined. All of us at Serious Eats approve of wearing what our bellies desire on our chests, so please let us know where to get other awesome food-emblazoned clothing in the comments or via email. Our wardrobes thank you in advance.
Posted by Adam Kuban, March 21, 2007 at 1:40 PM
The Gateway Grizzlies, the Frontier League baseball team based in Sauget, Illinois, are at it again.
Last year the stadium served "The Grizzly Burger," a bacon cheeseburger served on a toasted Krispy Kreme doughnut.
This year, they're raising the bar with deep-fried White Castle sliders. Called "Baseball’s Best Sliders," they'll come two for $4. A side of cheese sauce is $1 extra.
Says Darren Rovell, the man who broke the Grizzly Burger story last year, "It’s pretty awesome when it has been sitting in the studio for an hour. I can only imagine how great it is hot out of the fryer sitting at the ballpark. I couldn’t eat too much being that I’m down a gallbladder, but it basically tastes like an onion ring burger."
On deck: Baseball road trip!
Deep-Fried Sliders [cnbc.com; via Friend of AHT Balgavy]
Further Reading
I've written about several Megaburgers on A Hamburger Today as well as sackful upon sackful of Tiny Hamburgers. This story defies mutual exclusion, managing to qualify for both categories.
Posted by Adam Kuban, March 19, 2007 at 3:52 PM
Every year since the summer of 2004, a certain segment of burger-loving New Yorkers has engaged in ritualistic madness—waiting in an hour-plus line on opening day of the Shake Shack. Today was the unofficial opening, which might have explained the short line at 1:05 p.m., when the Serious Eats crew went to check things out. (Officially, the Shack opens on the first day of spring—March 21 this year).
Also each year, a certain segment of grousing New Yorkers, weary of the hype, has engaged in "Shacklash." The burgers are good there, folks like us say, but are they worth the long, long wait? I tend to avoid the joint at peak hours, but Serious Eats overlord Ed Levine checked the live Shack Cam and convinced Alaina and me to go. And, as editor of A Hamburger Today, I felt duty-bound to make the run.
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Posted by Adam Kuban, February 12, 2007 at 4:40 PM
On Serious Eats burger site A Hamburger Today Zoe Hamburger is this week's Q&A subject. Yes: Zoe Hamburger.. Heh.
Q: So you've heard a lot of burger jokes in your life—any memorable ones? What's been the cheesiest?
A: Aside from you asking what the cheesiest burger joke has been? When I was younger the cable company sent the bill to Bacon Double Cheeseburger instead of Peter W. Hamburger. My family thought it was hilarious. You have to have a good sense of humor if your last name is Hamburger.
Posted by Adam Kuban, January 16, 2007 at 12:12 PM
Don't mess with Texas. And, by all means, don't mess with Texas's hamburger. A state legislator there is embroiled in a burger battle with Louis' Lunch of New Haven, Connecticut, over which state can claim to be the birthplace of the hamburger. Says New Haven's mayor, John DeStefano Jr.: "We are even the birthplace of George Bush, who wants people to think he's from Texas. So yes, the hamburger is as much a New Haven original as President Bush. Get over it, Texas."
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Posted by Adam Kuban, December 29, 2006 at 8:48 AM
The end of the year—always a time for reflection. So we thought we'd dig in to the archives of Serious Eats site A Hamburger Today and bring you some images worth highlighting again. They're from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog and offer a look at the early days of the hamburger.
Most of the photos here were taken by Russell Lee (right; 1903–1986), who was invited to join the federally funded Farm Security Administration as part of a team of photographers charged with documenting the plight of the rural poor during the Depression. (Esther Bubley, Jack Delano, and Arthur Rothstein, whose photos are also represented below, were members of the project as well.)
These photos are truly a fascinating scrapbook of hamburger—and American—history, and they're available for reproduction online at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room (search the catalog for "hamburger"). Dig in!
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