Eat With Your Hands

By Russel Reuben + William Montecristo

With each issue of Covered Bridge , we, your brave culinary explorers Russel Reuben and William Montecristo, search the Valley for inspiring burgers, sandwiches, tacos, snacks on a stick, second breakfasts and finger foods.

For issue five of Covered Bridge , we humbly tackled our most ambitious and dangerous challenge yet. In today’s ultra-competitive, quickbite world, no culinary treat seems to be having a bigger “68 comeback special” moment more than the humble hot dog. From street corner carts to eclectic gastropub menus — fancy frankfurters, dressed-up dogs and wild wienies are getting their day in the spotlight. We scoured the Valley, eating more digglers than Kobayashi. We tried the $1.50 big box store combo. We forked out $30 for a buffalo brät beer dinner. Kielbasa sweats, mustard stains, raw dogged by day old bread … it was the best of times, it was the würst of times.