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  <id>11021</id>
  <title>The Perfect Hamburger</title>
  <published_at>Fri Mar 21 15:08:00 -0700 2008</published_at>
  <link>http://www.chow.com/stories/11021</link>
  <pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <short_description>Nicely brown with a thick coating of cheese</short_description>
  <long_description>Josh Ozersky and Gail Simmons go over the finer points.</long_description>
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  <author>Meredith Arthur, Eric Slatkin, and Blake Smith</author>
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    <id>90</id>
    <name>The Perfect</name>
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	<h1>The Perfect Hamburger</h1>


	<h3>By Meredith Arthur, Eric Slatkin, and Blake Smith</h3>


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CHOW wades into shark-infested waters of perfection: the burger. Josh Ozersky, author of <a target="blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#38;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FHamburger-History-Icons-America%2Fdp%2F0300117582%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1206125061%26sr%3D8-1&#38;tag=c037-20&#38;linkCode=ur2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creative=9325"><i>The Hamburger: A History</i></a> and former editor of <em>New York</em> magazine&#8217;s Grub Street blog (he&#8217;s now editor of <a target="blank" href="http://www.the-feedbag.com/">The Feedbag</a> blog), confers with Gail Simmons of <i>Top Chef</i> and <i>Food &#38; Wine</i> magazine. For Ozersky, it&#8217;s the burger at <a href="http://www.chow.com/places/7872">Veselka</a> in New York. 
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<p class="author_bio_new"><em>The unparalleled. The best in show. We call it <a class="red" href="http://www.chow.com/stories/90/category">The Perfect</a>: our video series on how something so very good gets to be that way.</em></p>]]>
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