History lesson

It is said that one fateful day in the year 1900 a man hurried into a small New Haven luncheonette and asked for meal that he could eat on the run. Louis Lassen, the purveyor soon to become culinary demigod, hurriedly made a sandwich that consisted of a broiled beef patty sandwiched between two slices of white bread and sent the customer on his way with America’s first hamburger. It was one of those moments that would change the gastronomic future of a nation and, in truth, the world.