The following historical data about the recipe for the first hamburger comes from the gastronomy

of the
Mongolian and Turkish tribes, who in the 14th century already minced meat from low-quality cattle into
strips to make it highly edible.7 minced meat comes to Germany through Russian-born Tatars (steak
tartare), who eat the meat raw and seasoned with spices. An older similar dish from the Roman Empire
is known, which consisted of a type of hamburger made with minced beef with pine nuts, salt and aged
wine, and served inside a bun. It should be noted that it was not until the invention of the meat mincer
that minced meat took the possibility of being processed in large quantities, being able to combine fat
and other tissues with lean meat.8

The word comes from the city of Hamburg, in Germany, the largest port in Europe at that time. Later, it
was the German immigrants of the late nineteenth century who introduced in the United States the dish
called Hamburg-style American steak (in Germany there is still in Hamburg what is called frikadelle and it
is a proto-Hamburger). A very similar food is rundstück warm. The oldest document that refers to this
dish is a letter from Delmonico's Restaurant, which in 1834 was already offering it to its customers. In
1895 a chef named Louis Lassen, from Connecticut, United States, made the first hamburger in North
America; the recipe was given to him by some sailors from the port of Hamburg.

Today its origin is disputed, since different regions of the United States claim to be the inventors of the
modern hamburger. One of the stories comes from the city of Seymour, Wisconsin, where in 1885
Charlie Nagreen, when he was fifteen years old, working at his food stand at the State Fair, comes up
with a problem: his customers wanted to walk down the street. fair while eating and needed a practical
way to do it. Charlie placed the meat between two slices of bread, calling it a hamburger. The success
was such that more inventors soon appeared, such as Frank Menches in 1892 at the Akron County Fair,
Ohio. The only certainty is that, at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, the hamburger was already very
famous and delicious.

The first hamburger chain in the world was called White Castle and was founded in Wichita (Kansas) in
1921 by the chef Walter A. Anderson and the insurance broker EW Ingram, whose scope was the
Midwest of the United States. as a novelty the pig stand, that is, they served hamburgers without the
need to leave the vehicle (drive-in). The brothers Dick and Ronald McDonald did something similar in
California in 1948.5 Subsequently, hamburgers were adopting the image provided by the large fast food
chains