A brief history of the American hot dog In the 1870s, German immigrant Charles Feltmen began serving on the rolls of Coney Island. While sausages and buns are by no means a new culinary creation, this may have been the first concept of the American phenomenon, the canine dog cat. ? Among the hot dogs […]
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Since July is considered National Hot Dog Month, I thought I’d run down my top five hot dog brands. Here they are: Sabrett In the Gonzalez family, Sabrett hot dogs lead the pack when dogs arrive at grocery stores. There is something about the dressing and the whole beef filling that I adore. Every time […]
Coney Island has always been a place for family fun and good summer times. A place devoted to release and memory. And there is still no place more synonymous with summer noise and joyous chaos. The charming name comes from konijn, Dutch for “wild rabbit,” which nearly all of the early European settlers found while […]
What better time than around the 4th of July to be “puttin’ on the dog?” Every year on Independence Day, Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs holds its annual hot dog eating contest at Coney Island in New York. Legend has it that the whole thing started back in 1916 when four immigrants settled a debate about […]