The Fable of the Hot Dog Vendor

Title

en_US The Fable of the Hot Dog Vendor

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Signed by Dino and Giovanna Cortopassi and also at the end by the latter

Creator

en_US Cortopassi, Dino See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T16:30:19Z

en_US 1999-10

en_US 1997

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:30:19Z

Date Issued

en_US 1997

Abstract

en_US Here is a Christmas tribute to hard work, to our many wonderful Stanislaus customers and their families who share our commitment to excellence. It is signed as a gift from Dino and Giovanna Cortopassi, owners of Stanislaus Food Products. The story tells of a poor immigrant setting up a hot dog stand selling the best hot dogs on the best buns with the best condiments--six of them on the first day of business, with the profits reinvested the next day in twelve hot dogs…. The business did well, and after years his son went off to college. He came back and talked the father in a time of recession into selling less than the best, but sales only slumped as a result. The son went on to work for a big chain, and the father finally sold the hot dog stand--to a hard-working young immigrant with the bright idea of selling the best hot dogs. Two things strike me as curious about the book: the self-congratulatory praise of hard work and good taste as appropriate for Christmas, and the negative character of the fable in the light of the lesson that Dino Cortopassi formulates this way at the end: Fortunately, long before I went to college, my immigrant father taught me 'You can't make good wine from bad grapes.' I believe that this book marks the first mention of hot dogs in this collection!

Identifier

en_US 3234 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78621

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Stanislaus Food Products

en_US NA

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.C665 Fab 1997 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

Book, Whole