It came ashore with immigrants from Hamburg, who had long since acquired the habit of eating ground beef, raw with onion juice, from nomadic Tatar tribes.

ECONOMIST: As hamburgers go, so goes America?

M. on the seventeenth he was served it: three barbecued pork ribs, two orders of onion rings, fried okra, three beef enchiladas with cheese, and two slices of lemon cream pie.

NEWYORKER: Trial by Fire