For Ancient Romans following Apicius, a recipe book likely compiled in the fifth century, a few different recipes might jump out. Braised flamingo, perhaps, or even brain sausages. Or maybe a dish called Isicia Omentata, which, by modern-day standards, is essentially a simple ground meat, pepper, and nut burger.
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Apicius demonstrates that making burgers out of simple ingredients isn’t a modern-day invention. Humans have been squashing various foods together into patties for, quite literally, centuries. But it was in the 1940s when the first documented mention of a veggie burger, created with nuts and legumes, occurred on an American radio show.
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In the decades that followed, a few chefs experimented with housemade veggie burger patties, ditching traditional meat and opting for plant-based ingredients instead. In the 1980s, London restauranter…