I was going to rave about our all-American dinner celebrating the first day of summer until I realized that our dinner idea was imported to the U.S. like much of our cuisine. First of all a hot dog, also known as a frankfurter, is a sausage or wurst from Germany. And sauerkraut translated to English is sour cabbage. We use the German word and don’t even bother with the English translation. The salad continues the theme with an abundance of cabbage (kraut.) I also added a cut-up mango. Mangoes originated in the region of Myanmar, Bangladesh., and northeastern India. We get most of our mangoes from Mexico.

Since the U.S. is a big gemisch (another German word!) of peoples from all over the world, it is true that our dinner was all-American!