Chicago hot dogs (1980);...

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

        Original message, from Barry Popik, June 1, 2005:
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> CHICAGO HOT DOG
> ...
> Andy Smith thinks I should devote my time to food. As if this "hot dog" disaster could be any worse. Betcha no one quotes my "hot dog" book next month, in July.
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Disaster?  The "hot dog" book was published last November and promptly received a newspaper article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.  It was mentioned in the obituaries on David Shulman (one of the three co-authors).  I'm slated to talk about the subject next week at the DSNA annual conference (Dictionary Society of North America).  It's a required item to be consulted in any future scholarly treatment of "hot dog."

    Call that a good beginning.

Gerald Cohen
P.S. As for Barry's other work on food items, I already have enough preliminary material in Comments on Etymology to publish a book on the subject (with Barry listed as the author).  When time permits,