So far, we've told you about the
East Coast contenders,
the Midwest ones, and those down
South. Let's head west, shall we?
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Next up in our search for
America's Best Hot Dog (we've so far told you about the
East Coast and down
South) is the
Midwest, another heavyweight hot dog region where frankfurters were introduced by Austrian immigrants at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. Since then, Chicago has rivaled New York as the hot dog center of the universe, although Detroit isn't far behind.
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So far, we've told you about the
East Coast contenders. Now it's time to move down South. Before this journey,
the South was a bit of a mystery to us in terms of hot dogs. I had a vague notion of slaw dogs being pretty good, but the region is more often than not overlooked in the hot dog media.The reality is that hot dogs are everywhere below the Mason-Dixon line, as much or
more so than other areas considered to be the epicenters of hot doggery. Here are our 16 favorites.
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The 64 contenders for America's Best Dog were organized by region, March Madness style, with 16 hot dog joints for each section of the country (East Coast, West Coast, South, and Midwest). To kick off the competition, we're doing a slideshow for each region.
First up is the East Coast.
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Every year in March basketball madness sweeps the U.S. as the NCAA championship tournament unfolds.* And once again this year, we at SE helped put together
Every Day with Rachael Ray's annual food bracket. Last year
it was pizza.
This year, the magazine asked us to focus on hot dogs.
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First Heidi Klum was a pizza clerk, now Rachael Ray is taking your dirty laundry on the CBS show I Get That a Lot. The show puts celebrities in "normal person" jobs to confuse customers. Hey doesn't that look like that one famous person? Yup, because it is. But we won't tell you and film you looking confused for fun. In this episode, Ray is behind the counter when a mother-daughter pair walks in to drop off their dry cleaning and immediately recognizes her. "Really, honestly, I get it every single day," Ray "swears." Watch the preview clip after the jump....
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If you're planning on watching tonight's episode of The Next Food Network Star, join us here in the comments at 9 p.m. ET. It'll be an open thread—jump in with your comments, observations, or play-by-play as the episode unfolds. This week the contestants head to Miami: who do you think will be going home?...
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We're going to try something a little different this week. If you're planning on watching tonight's episode of The Next Food Network Star, join us here in the comments at 9 p.m. ET. It'll be an open thread—jump in with your comments, observations, or play-by-play as the episode unfolds. This week things get real with Rachael Ray: who do you think will be going home?...
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"People think I'm like this food robot or something, but music is a huge part of my life." Ray told MTV News last year when nobody saw her rockin' SXSW party comin'. This year, she's got another one scheduled, with talk of the Hold Steady and the Airborne Toxic Event performing....
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The Huffington Post has Rachael Ray suggestively shucking corn in an amusing (and potentially NSFW) video titled "Rachael Ray Corn Porn." It's worse than you think....
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