[Sca-cooks] Burger battle
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net
Sun Jan 21 05:53:14 PST 2007
> Johnna Holloway wrote:
>> . . . Andy Smith indicates the origins are vague. Hamburg steak was on
>> Delmonico's menu as early as 1834. That may be the NYC claim. Hamburgers
>> were sold from a lunch wagon in New Haven
>> by 1900S. . .
>>
>>
> According to Benavides-Barajas the recipe for hamburger originated in
> Persia and was brought to Al-Andalus by the Arabs. It was a popular dish
> in the Alhambra flavored with onion and honey and decorated with chopped
> walnuts or apple and served with honey.
> Susan
It might equally be argued that the recipe for hamburger originates in the
recipes for isicia from the Roman Empire. Your description, for example,
has a number of points in common with Isicia omentata (which can be patties
or meatballs depending on the translation).
Forcemeat recipes are fairly common. Without a clear linguistic
relationship to the name or a probable lineage of recipes, it's only a guess
as to whether the hamburger was based on long tradition or an idea of the
moment.
Bear
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