Thinking about Coney Island coupled with this recent photostream of Brooklyn's Barclay Center got me thinking about .. well .. the culture and art of creating and eating a hot dog.
One of the most memorable descriptions I've read about rituals in savoring this New York and Chicago based comfort food - and now spread almost everywhere else (and so ingeniously in some cases, you could swear hot dog originated there instead) - arrived via eighty-something Renaissance woman Maya Angelou (who is also interviewed, there, by August McLaughlin last December). It went something like this link in Redbook, only more delectably drawn-out, concerning a grilled Hebrew National with ice cold Corona, no lime, just sitting enjoying the flavors all for oneself - ringing phones, door knocks, appointments, to-do's, shelved for the focused pleasure of this pastime Americana. August McLaughlin shares Maya Angelou's recipe for home-made chili, and for when hot dog is most resplendently topped.
Redbook also reports that the writer hosts a tree trimming party every December serving her chili, only with cornbread, and lots of wine.
* Photo credit/Photographer is Youngamerican at Wiki/Hillbilly Hot Dogs, a roadside hot dog stand located on West Virginia State Route 2 north of Huntington, West Virginia. The photo was taken on 8 July 2006. Visit Hillbilly Hot Dogs here on the web.
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