1867 | Restaurants
Restaurants
Delmonico's chef Charles Ranhofer at New York creates Baked Alaska to celebrate the purchase of what many call "Seward's Folly" or "Seward's Icebox." Ranhofer has enclosed a brick of ice cream in a meringue and quickly baked it in the oven.
German-born entrepreneur Charles Feltman employs a wheelwright named Donovan to build a burner in the back of the pie-wagon which he has been driving up and down the beach at Coney Island in Brooklyn, N.Y. His customers have asked for hot sandwiches, the burner enables him to keep warm sausages on hand, his frankfurters wrapped in a roll or bun (adapted from a Nuremberg custom) gain quick popularity, and by the turn of the century his huge Feltman's restaurant on the Coney Island boardwalk will have seven grills turning out 10ยข frankfurters and will employ 1,200 waiters (see "hot dog," 1906; Nathan Handwerker, 1916).