Day Three and I got my second wind back with five more burgers down the hatch.
Day Two: Brighter Burger Days and Huge Mistakes
Day One: Burger Weak
DAY SIX: THE GRAND FINALE
Today is the last day of Burger Week and my sentiments can only be described as bittersweet. Unlike the previous Burger Weeks, this is the first time that I don’t feel like I’m dying. Perhaps I’ve become a seasoned pro, or maybe it’s my new Burger Week morning ritual of starting the day with a probiotic gut shot and ginger tea. Whatever it may be, I feel a tinge of sadness that it’s ending. Or maybe that’s just heartburn.
DAY THREE: A SAUSAGE ROLL STATE OF MIND
I wake up earlier than usual, hesitant and uneasy. I’m officially halfway finished with Burger Week, but it still feels like an uphill battle. I have a hard time getting my mental game in gear because today is the day I get the Delicious Donuts burger. I’ve been putting this off out of pure fear, but it’s time to buck up and burger on.
DAY ONE: DRAMA & DISAPPOINTMENT
DAY TWO: Meat & Greet
3:41 PM: When I was a kid, I was very intrigued by the idea of riding in the Oscar Meyer Wiener Mobile. However, hot dogs don't even come close to the miraculous wonder of a cheeseburger. To ride in a cheeseburger car is a dream come true, to say the least. I feel like every second of my life, everything I've ever worked for, every burger I've ever consumed, has lead up to this moment.
Burger Odyssey Day 4: Can't spell "salad" without "sad"
Burger Odyssey Day 4: Fatigue
Burger Odyssey Day 2: Mischief Managed
Burger Nuptials
44 hours! The amount of time I went without actively participating in Portland Burger Week. We've been talking about unleashing a burger review site for years and it was finally the right time. I told my friends I'd build the site that would give them a platform to spew their burger nonsense. But I broke their now grease filled hearts...
Burger Week: Knuckle Sandwich
Normally I’d say any contestant that enlists the help of a former food critic from the organization that throws the event is in some sort of murky kickbacking affair, but I don’t know really what that means for burgers, and If there’s some sort of kickback situation going on in the burger world, I want to know how to be a part of it...
Burger Odyssey Day 1: Expendable Toppings
2015: A Burger Odyssey
Once upon a time, August was just a really hot month. A month completely devoid of sports that aren’t baseball. A month without any notable holidays, drinking or religious. A month tailor made for Rush Hour sequels. Finally in 2013, out of this bleak, basketball-less wasteland, an oasis emerged: the inaugural Portland Burger Week...
I Had The Burger
The American Dream has always been to move to Portland, Oregon and eat cheeseburgers. In Portland, burgers coarse through our veins, like chunky ooey gooey plasma, and it even shows in our industry. Artisanal ingredients become artisanal burgers, artisanally ingested with clock like efficiency by dreamers who all dream of the same thing. We dream of...