Corn dogs go couture
FORT WORTH, Texas — As guilty pleasures go, it’s hard to top the corn dog (or corny dog, as it’s still called at the State Fair of Texas).
A wiener on a stick, cloaked in a sizzling-hot coating of deep-fried cornmeal batter, slathered with bright-yellow mustard — doesn’t that puffy dark-brown crust look tempting, glistening in the lurid lights of the fair midway or the yellow glare from a divey drive-in’s canopy?
Those settings are the corn dog’s natural habitat. You wouldn’t eat it at a table, much less a table set with Yves Delorme linen napkins instead of the flimsy paper kind. Or would you?
Turns out you would. On trendy tables from Texas to L.A., corn dogs are going upscale. (more…..)
