"Hot Dog" La Times ProQuest articles.-- (Lee M. Roderick's dissertation)

[Gerald Cohen]

   The dissertation is likely to be a very technical discussion.
WorldCat shows just one item by Lee M. Roderick between 1920-1930,
but this article gives an idea of what his (her?) lengthier treatment
will be like: "Some antigenic relations of the bipolaris septicus
group of bacteria," first printed in the Journal of Infectious
Diseases.

    So bacteria? Yes. Etymology or the history of the frankfurter? Not likely.
But Barry's other postings on "hot dog" are valuable and I look
forward to compiling them (with due credit given, of course).

Gerald Cohen


>At 10:53 PM -0400 8/16/03, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>"HOT DOG" IN LOS ANGELES TIMES
>
>    The LOS ANGELES TIMES ProQuest database now extends to parts of
>1928.  Still no "taco."
>
>
>       HOT DOG'S WOES TOLD IN BOOK
>               Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File).       Los
>Angeles, Calif.: Jul 23, 1926.                   p. 3 (1 page)
>    CHICAGO, July 22. (AP)--The common or baseball-park variety of
>frankfurter has come into its own.
>    On the shelves of the University of Chicago library with the
>classics of literature and the latest words or science reposes a
>volume solely concerned with the well-being of the "hot dog."
>    It is the thesis submitted for the degree of doctor of philosophy
>by Lee M. Roderick, who, studying meat spoilage, became so intrigued
>by the troubles of the frankfurter that he wrote a whole book about
>nothing else.
>(Maybe someone in the Chicago Culinary Historians who is interested
>in "hot dog" research can tell us what it says?--ed.)