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Katherine Yung is a reporter at the Detroit Free Press covering Michigan's economy and other business subjects. Before joining the Free Press in May 2007, she worked for the Dallas Morning News and the Detroit News.
Joe Grimm is the author of several books, including Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors (Wayne State University Press, 2002), Songquest: The Journals of Great Lakes Folklorist Ivan H. Walton (Wayne State University Press, 2005), and Bringing the News. Following a thirty-one-year newspaper career, twenty-five of them spent at the Detroit Free Press, he became a journalism professor at Michigan State University.
At a time when a growing number of Americans are discovering-or
rediscovering-their foodways traditions, Coney Detroit provides a
rich and colorful picture of the way coney dogs have emerged as a
distinctive symbol of identity for Detroiters. Yung and Grimm
provide keen insights into the history and daily life of the coney
island restaurants that dot the cityscape of Detroit, and they
feature the people who make and passionately carry on coneys as a
Michigan folk tradition. Coney Detroit is a lively celebration of
how food contributes to identity of place and meaning to all those
who have taken a bite of Detroit's coney tradition."--C. Kurt
Dewhurst "president of the American Folklore Society and Curator of
Folklife and Cultural Heritage at Michigan State University
Museum"
Every politician campaigning in Detroit must get photographed with
a coney in hand. Athletes and music stars going for after-game or
concert coneys run into fans doing the same thing. When national
media declare a coney showdown, we flock to the restaurants to
cheer on our favorites like we cheer on our sports teams."--Joe
Grimm "from the preface"
More than 150 colorful photos depict the traditions, rivalries, and
differences between restaurants that sell the coney in its various
forms: wet and dry. While the coney legend is centered in Detroit,
Yung and Grimm also uncover coney history in other Michigan cities
including Flint, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Port Huron, Pontiac, and
Traverse City.--Michigan History "Michigan History"
Take a hot dog from New York's famed Coney Island, throw in plenty
of Greek immigrants and a booming auto industry, add some chili
sauce, a steamed bun, chopped onions, mustard and an epic sibling
rivalry and you've got the makings of a classic American melting
pot story. That story is told in Coney Detroit, a new book that
serves as paean for what's become the quintessential dish of the
Motor City.--Maria Godoy "NPR"
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