A Hamburger Today  The Oinkster in Eagle Rock, California,
Serves Slow Fast Food Burgers   The Oinkster  Cooking Method:
Griddled Short Order: A fine dining chef's take on the fast food
leads to an excellent burger Want Fries with That? Yes, please.
The twice-fried, Belgian-style fries are a superior value at
$2.25 Notes: Sun. to Thurs., 11 a.m - 10 p.m.; Fri. to Sat., 11
a.m. - 12 a.m. They serve beer and wine so you can make it a
night out!  Eagle Rock is what I grew up dreaming a suburb was
like. For a boy living in a cramped Manhattan apartment, there
was nothing more fantastical than having a home with a backyard
and a neighborhood of kids with whom to share it. It sounds
strange to narrate it now, but growing up I never really
experienced the American suburb—not even an overnight visit to a
friend's place during a summer vacation. My life was a mix of
New York City's impossibly urban landscape with occasional
sojourns to the beach or a rural farmscape. It was nothing like
the lives of those kids inside