nosh nook #30 - friday, april 24, 2009

day of pigs (link)
04.23.09 - examiner.com - by liza zimmerman

hot dogs are sweet. tiny hot dogs are even sweeter. wrap them up in a puff pastry & you've got "the bomb." if you feel like i do, you're in luck, because today is national pigs in a blanket day. i would have had no idea were it not for the heads up from lisa zimmerman, who got the heads up from her editors & then decided to reminisce about her personal pig in a blanket dealings...cute headline, ms. lisa.

as a kid, they were her favorite thing about dinner parties. as an adult, she once worked for "a high-brow publishing house in new york, where the publisher's favorite food was pigs in blankets." nuff said there. pigs in a blanket are obviously adored by both young & old.

i have to be honest though. her recommendations for drink pairings--a number of different red wines--strike me as odd. i know that the pig in a blanket is most famously a snack for cocktail parties, where folks are often drinking wine, but essentially she's saying "this wine goes great with a hot dog." there's just something about the mixture of typical low-brow (hot dog) with typical high-brow (wine) that cracks me up...although i suppose that once you've miniaturized that hot dog & wrapped it in a puff pastry instead of a bun, you've, at some point, crossed the border into high brow.  it just seems weird is all.  day of pigs!