Josh Ozersky | Food Writer & Burger Expert

"Burger purists have a historical cast of mind. Theyre always walking around with a patriotic and antiquarian bent thinking about old-time, classic hamburgers, like the kind that was eaten by Wimpy and Jugghead. Burger purist arent really fit to live in this world. Theres a kind of poetic idealism to them and a sense of innocence that was lost by the American Adam."

Those of the words of Josh Ozersky, aka Mr. Cutlets - a James Beard Award winning food writer and cultural historian, whose books include, Meat Me in Manhattan, A Carnivores Guide to New York, The Hamburger: A History, and Archie Bunkers America: TV in Era of Changing Times.

As the former restaurants editor of Citysearch.com and editor of The Feedbag, Josh has eaten at just about every restaurant in the city, but what he knows best is meat, especially hamburgers. He knows so much about them, that some might even consider him an expert on the topic.

A good burger according to Josh "deserves a kind of Shinto-like approach. Think about way the Japanese sacrilize the purity of simple objects. Look at the way they think about a piece of sashimi. Thats the way we should think about a hamburger. Because the hamburger, like sashimi, or a baked potato, or a piece of fruit on a plate, is a gastronomic end point."

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[mryjn420090]

Burger expert? what a fucking joke fat bastard

[yerk3]

@SpiralishCandy Eating anything will make you fat and give you heart problems. It's all about moderation.

[yerk3]

@eskimojoe6699 usin big wurds iz for dum morans and so iz speling and punktuation

[yerk3]

@afterapplepicking It's mostly genetic predisposition. Eating a lot of meat may aggrevate it, but having it in the first place is genetic.

[yerk3]

I wonder what he would say about the original Japanese interpretation of hamburgers, where the meat is beef teriyaki and the bun is made out of rice. Going by everything else I've seen from him, I'm guessing he would want to kill it with fire.

[bullettoothburrows]

@SpiralishCandy Hell yeah!

[PsychOMoE88]

Youre a naughty boy! LOL!

[afterapplepicking]

Not to be an insensitive prick, but word of warning: This fella has gout.

And he's a young man. And he has gout.

Yeah.

Not saying anything against meat, you understand. Hamburgers are delicious. But everything in moderation. Or else you might get fuckin gout.

And no one will want to fuck you if you have gout.

[doggieGZ]

Seeing a conniseaur talk about burgers is like watching an ape try to ballroom dance. Theres no place for them in this realm or the next.

[Dru1dM4N]

so, this fat thesaurous slob is a foot fetish-civil war reenactor?