The New York Style Hot Dog

FEW CITIES ARE AS SYNONYMOUS WITH THE HOT DOG AS NEW YORK CITY. The history of the hot dog in New York was, for a time at least, the history of the hot dog itself. Heck, it is rumored that the word “hot dog” was coined at a Giants game—the New York Journal’s Tad Dorgan, a cartoonist, needed a cute and memorable name for the handheld treat that the crowd seemed to eat up (in reality, the term was used long before it was ever seen in a Dorgan cartoon). At a time when “hot frankf