Louis' Lunch has Beef with Book Claiming It Didn't Invent the Hamburger

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There they go again, trying to shoot down Louis' Lunch and its proud claim of making the world's first hamburger. The latest naysayer is Josh Ozersky, food editor for New York Magazine. He has written a soon-to-be-published book "The Hamburger: A History." The people at Yale University Press provided me with an advance copy, and its pages 17-18 are dynamite.

Clearly, the man has done a lot of research. Beginning on page 15 of his 140-page book, Ozersky tries to sort out who made the first hamburger.

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Louis' Lunch has Beef with Book Claiming It Didn't Invent the Hamburger

"There are a number of rival claims," he wrote, "but they're all equally worthless, historically speaking. None can produce any real evidence."

Among the earliest claimants to the burger throne was a teenage...

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