Did you think hamburguers were a modern food? Believe it or not, the origin of the hamburguer goes all the way back to ancient Egypt – more than four thousand years ago!
Much later, the soldiers of Genghis Khan, a Mongol emperor in the 13th century, ate steak of minced beef. They took this recipe with them to Russia. Russians eat a variation called “tartar steak”: raw, minced meat mixed with many spices.
The name “hamburguer” comes from the German city of Hamburg, where it was very popular in the 14th century. This is when the hamburguer began to look like the ones we see today: a flat cake of minced beef placed between two slices of bread.
The hamburguer arrived in Britain in the 19th century. After that, the British introduced
this food to the USA. Nowadays, the hamburguer is one of the most popular meals in the world.
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