The etymological history of this practical dish, prepared by adding meatballs and greens between two slices of bread, goes back to Central Asia. It seems that this friend has always accompanied our cuisine.
The opening of the hamburger, which literally means “from Hamburg” to the world, seems to originate from the ancestors of us Turks. So how did this dish spread to every part of the world so much?
In the past, the hamburger was not in the form we know today.
At that time, warrior communities and tribes in the Baltic regions of Russia consumed the meat in the form of steak. Among these tribes were especially Tatars. Tatar horsemen, who consumed the meat raw at first, saw that the meat was cooked little by little with the movements of the horses, when they put the meat under the saddles of the horses with their riding vehicles.
During these long expeditions in Asia, when they removed the meat from the horse of the saddle, the cooked meat created the ‘Tatar Steak’ as we know it today.
In the middle of the 19th century, a German merchant brought this steak to Germany as an idea.
A merchant from Hamburg, Germany, saw this meat in Central Asia, where he went for trade, and took it to Germany. Over time, he began to offer it as Hamburg Steak. The Germans, who liked the hamburger very much, brought a different interpretation by putting onions in it. After the name “Hamburger” meaning “Belonging to Hamburg” was given, the hamburger began to open up to the world.
Hamburger came out of Germany by different methods.
First, physicist and food development expert Dr. This process started when JH Salisbury took the hamburger to England. Salisbury believed that eating steak washed in hot water three times a day was good for health. The hamburger prepared in this way was called ‘Salisbury Steak’ in England.
The second opening of the hamburger to the world was also with the German immigration. The Germans who went to America named these meatballs, which were prepared at the end of the 19th century, as hamburgers in America.
Hamburger historians (yes, there really is such a group) have investigated the origin of the hamburger.
Researchers found that Fletcher Davies, a restaurateur in Athens, Texas, was born in St. They claim that the hamburger he prepared at the St. Louis World’s Fair was the first hamburger. The claims will be so convincing that in 2006 Athens was confirmed as the home of the hamburger.
As time progressed, fast food culture spread in America and Europe. While the homeland of the hamburger, which we can see everywhere we step on, was Central Asia, it evolved over time and took its current form.
Because Americans are very meticulous about hamburgers, they insist on making hamburgers their “national food”. It entered our country only in 1986 with a chain.
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