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    On this week's A Taste of the Past, Linda Pelaccio hosts famed food writer Andrew Smith to talk about the history of the hamburger and the emergence of McDonald's, one of Smith's thirty most important food moments in American history.
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    The Birth of the Burger and McDonald's (9:11)

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