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Dog tales: What you need to know about hot dogs & sausages, with great recipes


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Dog tales: What you need to know about hot dogs & sausages, with great recipes

"A waist is a terrible thing to mind." Anonymous

By Meathead Goldwyn

Why are hot dogs so popular? They are fast, kid friendly, they have saved many harried parents with no time to cook, and they just plain taste good. They also connect us with our childhood, our parents, and our hometown. The are also a cultural leveler because you can find anyone in line at a hot dog stand, from wealthy captains of industry to powerful politicians to movie stars to laborers and the homeless.

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Hot Dog Road Trip. Here's an idea for your next big cookout: There are scores of recipes for serving hot dogs and many hole in the wall hot dog stands have earned life-long followers with their unusual house style. Interestingly, many cities and regions have evolved a local recipe that is their signature breed. It has become part of their area culture and they cannot stand to eat them any other way. For them the unique scent and taste of the genre they know and love conjures powerful memories. Not counting the recipes unique to only one or two joints, there's The Coney Island Hot Dog and its brother the New York Pushcart Dog, The Chicago Hot Dog, The Detroit Coney and its sibling The Flint Coney, The Cincinnati Cheese Coney, The Rochester Garbage Plate, The West Virginia Slawdog, The Seattle Cream Cheese Dog, The North Jersey Italian Dog, The Texas Wiener, The Rhode Island New York System Hot Wiener, The Sonora Dog, and The Weenie Royale.

How to cook hot dogs. You thought it was simple right? Well it is, if you know what you're doing. Here are the best strategies for char dogs on the grill, on the griddle, split dogs, dirty water dogs, steamers, and nukes.

Preparing your buns. Believe it or not, there are several ways to handle bunsScissors-32x32.png

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