Truth Hammer: On Mark Bittman's Decidedly Un-Minimalist Burgers

Mark "The Minimalist" Bittman's piece on "sausages in burger form" in the New York Times today has caused much grumbling at AHT headquarters. The premise—and I'm paraphrasing here—is that plain ol' all-beef burgers are boring and that pork- or lamb- or even shrimp-pork shumai-burgers kick beef-burger ass. Here's the fallacy that's got the AHT crew up in arms.

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33 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, May 26, 2010 at 6:00 PM
Tagged: Mark Bittman, The Minimalist, Truth Hammer

Josh Ozersky Can't See the Burgers for the Stars

In Time magazine, noted hamburger authority Josh Ozersky overstates the importance of the Rachael Ray Burger Bash to the burger world. It's a stretch to say that these bashes even exist in the hamburger universe, let alone being that universe's "greatest spectacle," as Ozerksy puts it.

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34 Comments | Posted by Nick Solares, March 2, 2010 at 4:15 PM
Tagged: Josh Ozersky, Mister Cutlets, Rachael Ray Burger Bash, ruminations, Truth Hammer

Another Slider Misnomer on 'Chopped'

For almost its entire existence, a hamburger has meant ground beef served on a bun. To admit ground beef on toast as a hamburger is to make the idea of a "hamburger" so loose, so abstract, so semiotically promiscuous...

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20 Comments | Posted by Nick Solares, January 28, 2009 at 11:00 AM
Tagged: Chopped, sliders, Truth Hammer, TV

The Castle Holds Against Heathen Detractors

Photograph from Marshall Astor - Food Pornographer on Flickr Raphael just pointed me to this link and said that maybe it was time to drop the Truth Hammer. I don't know. Witness: Even at $0.64 for a burger I...

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5 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, January 6, 2009 at 4:00 PM
Tagged: Truth Hammer, White Castle

BA Foodist Blog Asks: 'Is This NYC's Best Burger?'

BAFoodist Every few weeks, some joker comes along and proclaims he has just eaten "New York City's best new burger." This time it's Andrew Knowlton, of Bon Appétit magazine [emphasis, mine]: [Bobo chef Patrick] Connolly takes D'Artagnan ground beef...

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3 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, October 17, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Tagged: best-of lists, Bobo, Bon Appétit, fancy-pants burgers, Listburg, Manhattan, NYC, NYC's best new burger again, Truth Hammer, West Village

A Mini Hamburger Is Not a Slider

Photograph by Nick "Beef Aficionado" Solares I have a couple pet peeves. Scratch that. I have a lot of them. And the New York Times just poked at one. Previewing tomorrow's food section coverage, the Diner's Journal blog foreshadows...

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30 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, July 15, 2008 at 3:06 PM
Tagged: New York Times, rants, sliders, tiny hamburgers, Truth Hammer