Ani Vrabel

Nostalgia done right

Americans love hot dogs. We know this because, according to the National Hot Dog Sausage Council (which is, yes, a thing), we bought $1.6 billion worth of them last year ... just in supermarkets. But the dog — along with the slightly more grownup-sounding sausage — is most at home inside a stadium or at some nearby tailgate, preferably one with an open fire. Thing is, there isn’t really any standard for how you should eat one, and the farther you move outward from the center of the United State…

Jennifer England has a new day job. A model, actress, and stuntwoman, she’s appeared in Transformers and Smokin’ Aces. Earlier this year, she also beat out a few hundred other women to land the coveted blue lederhosen and sash that come with being the St. Pauli Girl spokesmodel. In the process, she’s learned a whole lot about beer and what it means to become the living embodiment of a beloved German beverage. We caught up with England at Galway Hooker, a bar in New York City, where she was promo…