Description: Not a book to be read on an empty stomach, Coney Detroit deserves a place in every Detroiter or Detroiter-at-heart's collection.
Review Quotes:
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"