The Hamburger Through Time

A short history of the greatest American food icon.

The Conference You Wish You Went To

A report from Tales of the tail. (By Jordan Mackay)

Fork on the Left, Knife on the Floor

Designers reinvent the table setting. (By Michele Foley)

From cave paintings to burgers, beef has long been a part of human history. (By Jason Horn)

Food-stand favorite now open year-round. (By Mark Hokoda)

Editor Josh Ozersky says so long and thanks for all the hamburgers. (By Traci Vogel)

Turn the dial back and meet the original hamburger-lovin’ clown. Just in time for Halloween. (By Traci Vogel)

Where did Grimace go? McDonald’s keeps the purple blob in the closet these days—perhaps because of his shady past? (By Joyce Slaton)

A football match becomes a food fight when a leg of lamb ends up on the field. (By Traci Vogel)

The massive ground beef recall leaves a big hole in the freezers of many school districts. (By Nicholas Day)

Be careful when bringing your baked goods to work. That’s what got one food blogger and high school literacy consultant assigned to teach an elective cooking class at her school—30 minutes, four times a week, without a stove,... (By Tea Austen Weaver)

Author, entrepreneur, and farm-to-table provocateur Nina Planck has a solution to the E. coli outbreak devastating the spinach industry: Eat grass. (By Josh Friedland)

Admission is free, so bring the kids to the first Burger Museum ever! (By Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic)