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For those of you who don’t read their almanacs every day, May is National Hamburger Month. Why should you celebrate a food item that saturates our culture? At the very least, you can learn how to make a better burger yourself. But thinking about the humble hamburger can also inspire thought and discussion about American identity.

The hamburger, despite a name that seems to derive from a German city, is a particularly American food. It requires minimal cooking and the assembly of many simple, raw ingredients. Convenience and affordability are pretty American.