How much will a 4th of July cookout cost this year?
FEW THINGS sit closer to the heart of Americana than the hamburger. In the early 1970s John Updike, an acute observer of American life, described the country as “a hamburger kingdom, one cuisine, under God, indivisible, with pickles and potato chips for all”. At the time, the hamburger was a democratic meal: cheap, plentiful and available to almost everyone.
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