“Do you know what I miss most about baseball? The pine tar, the resin, the grass, the dirt — and that’s just in the hot dogs”*…
When Tamar Adler decided to hand-make hot dogs for a summer wedding party, she had no idea what she was getting herself into…
The extraordinary tale in its entirety at “How the Sausage Is Made: A Look Inside the World of Bespoke Hot Dogs.”
* David Letterman (during the baseball strike)
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As we relish relish, we might recall that it was on this date in 1810 that Peter Durand was granted a patent (No. 3372) by King George for the preservation of food in metal (and glass and pottery) containers– the tin can. Durand was acting as an agent for his friend, the French inventor Nicolas Appert, who had won 12,000 francs from the French military for devising a method of storing food. Sometimes called “the father of canning,” Appert actually used sealed glass jars to preserve food. Durand switched to metal.
One of Durand’s first cans