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The Best Kosher Hot Dog in the World
by Jonathan Zalman
August 4, 2017

…On Monday, my uncle, a Southsider who moved to Chicago’s north ‘burbs in the late ‘60s, was craving a hot dog. It was his birthday after all, and he had just the place: The small BBQ restaurant next to—and run by—Shaevitz’s Kosher Market and Deli in Highland Park, Illinois. I expected standard albeit excellent kosher fare—a Hebrew National Beef Frank, perhaps, or even, if I was lucky, a hot dog from Romanian Kosher Sausage Company, a wiener Chicagoans rightfully swear by. We ordered the hot dog and got fries with. READ MORE

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