Gastro The Burger: A History of the Sandwich Nobody Invented and Everybody Perfected
At the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, among pavilions promising the future - automobiles, electric lighting, iced tea served cold for the first time - one stand offered something far humbler: ground meat between two pieces of bread. None of the visitors that day could have guessed that this modest sandwich, not the cars or the electricity, would become one of the defining symbols of the century that followed.
