Hamburger America: One Man's Cross-Country Odyssey to Find the Best Burgers in the Nation [With DVD]

by George Motz

Book Overview

Whether you're an armchair traveler, a serious hamburger connoisseur, or a curious adventurer up for a road trip, Hamburger America will be your guide to reclaiming this precious slice of Americana.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762431024
• ISBN13: 9780762431021
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 2.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Hamburgers

I am partners in a small Hamburger joint here in Arlington Texas. I had to have this just to see what great gimmicks there are out there. I was greatly pleased with this book. Two of my favorite places back home in Columbus Ohio made the grade. As well as a place here in Ft Worth... But I don't think the one here compares at all with my criteria... must have been a money thing with them. But it's the DVD that came with the book that makes it all worth while. Wonderful DVD showing some of best and unusual places to be had across America.. Makes you want to do a rode trip.

Great Book!

If you travel and love hamburgers this book is a must have. The wife and I love hamburgers and will use this book as a reference when we travel. We are determined to visit as many of these places as we can. The book is very well put together. The writing is straight-forward and the photos were obviously taken by someone with a flair for the arts. Thoroughly enjoyable!

A Hamburger Fantasy

This book is terrific. I can't stop reading it. It's like a fascinating trip through time, into the past forty years of life in America.

Very entertaining and informative

this book was really fun to read and so much information about the best hamburger places in the country. Makes you hungry the minute you start flipping through it. The DVD that came with it was a great bonus and very entertaining. This is a great buy.

Essential Americana reading and a fantastic guidebook for the perfect food

I first saw Motz's documentary Hamburger America (which is included with the book) and was amazed on how he captured more than just places that serve a mean hamburger. Every place he went in the film gave you a look at different types of Americans, their history, their future and all held together by the love of America's favorite food. The book builds upon that. Each entry is written with admiration for the burger, the restaurant and the people that cook them. By visiting different cities, cultures, races, and histories of the many burger joints in this book, Motz is able to bring them altogether on one theme: they all make a great burger. And isn't that what America is about? This hodgepodge of cultures in one place looking for the dream, can all be united by ground beef in a bun. Forget the mass produced fast food chains. It's the local mom and pops, diners, decades old places that Americans hold true to their heart. It was written that if you don't claim your hometown greasy spoon as serving the best burger, then you're a wimp. Well this book covers many of those hometown favorites. Even if you do not especially like hamburgers, this book is essential for reading on American folk-life and its wonderful people.