Over at the New York Times, Sam Sifton has a comprehensive grilling guide, with tips for charcoal or gas grills, and cooking beef, chicken, seafood, vegetables, corn, fruit, pizza, and bread. Inside or out, here are tips for cooking a diner or pub-style burger:

This week on Dining on a Dime, host Lucas Peterson goes to Pilsen, a primarily Mexican neighborhood on the lower west side of Chicago, to visit The Jibarito Stop, a food-truck-turned-restaurant that serves fantastic jibaritos. Using tostones, or fried plantains, in place of bread, the jibarito is crunchy, sweet, and in the running to become…

Across America, there’s a trend toward locally-sourced, fresh ingredients for one’s meals.  For agricultural communities like Whitewater, where many residents have large gardens, or enjoy fresh eggs, that’s not a trend as much as it is a way of life.  But other communities have seen a trend that encourages moving away from frozen meals, for…

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This week on Dining on a Dime, Lucas Peterson teams up with The Meat Show’s Nick Solaresto find the ideal meal for both their tastes: flavorful but inexpensive, and centered around beef. Their search leads them to the town of Massapequa on New York’s Long Island and a place called All American Hamburger Drive-In, an old-school burger…