Foreword

Appears in

The Great American Burger Book

By George Motz

Published 2016

About

This book is dedicated to my mama:

Thanks for making it look so easy

And to the rest of my loving, food-crazy family

Andrew Zimmern

Food is good. Food with a story is better. Food with a story you haven’t heard before is best of all. Hold that thought.

I stand for many things: I’m a globalist, and a regionalist, but I am first and foremost a New Yorker, which means I was weaned on great hamburgers served in bars, without lettuce or tomato anywhere near them. P.J. Clarke’s and J.G. Melon—those were the burger joints my father took me to.