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A History
Yale University Press
May 2008
On Sale: April 22, 2008
160 pages
ISBN: 0300117582
EAN: 9780300117585
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Cooking / Food
What do Americans think of when they think of the hamburger?
A robust, succulent spheroid of fresh ground beef, the
birthright of red-blooded citizens? Or a Styrofoam-shrouded
Big Mac, mass-produced to industrial specifications and
served by wage slaves to an obese, brainwashed population?
Is it cooking or commodity? An icon of freedom or the
quintessence of conformity? This fast-paced and entertaining book unfolds the immense
significance of the hamburger as an American icon. Josh
Ozersky shows how the history of the burger is entwined with
American business and culture and, unexpectedly, how the
burger’s story is in many ways the story of the country that
invented (and reinvented) it. Spanning the years from the nineteenth century with its
waves of European immigrants to our own era of
globalization, the book recounts how German “hamburg steak”
evolved into hamburgers for the rising class of urban
factory workers and how the innovations of the White Castle
System and the McDonald’s Corporation turned the burger into
the Model T of fast food. The hamburger played an important
role in America’s transformation into a mobile, suburban
culture, and today, America’s favorite sandwich is nothing
short of an irrepressible economic and cultural force. How
this all happened, and why, is a remarkable story, told here
with insight, humor, and gusto.
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