Royal family's favorite American foods and 'humble' hot dog's important role in history revealed

The royal household has historically enjoyed trying food successful the United States during their visits to the country, a caller publication reveals – and 1 repast successful peculiar mightiness person changed the people of history, according to its author.

In his caller publication "Cooking & the Crown: Royal Recipes from Queen Victoria to King Charles III," Tom Parker Bowles details the food-related adventures of the royal household implicit the past 2 centuries.

Parker Bowles, lad of Queen Camilla, is an award-winning nutrient writer and restaurant critic. 

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"I deliberation erstwhile the monarchs travel, they effort each the food," Parker Bowles told Fox News Digital successful a Zoom interrogation from his edifice country successful New York City. (See the video astatine the apical of this article.)

"Why wouldn't you, if you travel to America? It's got immoderate of the top determination nutrient successful the world," helium said. 

In his caller book, "Cooking & the Crown: Royal Recipes from Queen Victoria to King Charles III," Tom Parker Bowles, lad of Camilla — she is shown astatine acold left, above, adjacent to King Charles — shares stories and recipes of the British royal family. It includes immoderate of their trips to the United States, wherever they ate blistery dogs (top right) and enchiladas (bottom right).  (Chris Jackson/Getty Images; iStock)

Perhaps the astir consequential American crockery consumed by a British royal were the blistery dogs shared by King George VI and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Parker Bowles told Fox News Digital.

The 2 dined connected the American classical successful Hyde Park, New York, successful June 1939, Parker Bowles wrote successful his book. 

"The King and Queen recovered themselves sitting connected folding chairs astatine Hyde Park, eating blistery dogs served connected metallic platters," helium wrote. "The King seemed a small nonplussed. 'What should I do?' helium asked the President. 'Put it successful your rima and support chewing until you decorativeness it,' came the smiling response." 

"Really, it was the powerfulness of food. That's what fascinates me."

After the hot dogs were consumed, however, speech turned to the increasing menace of Nazi Germany. 

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At the time, the thought of entering different warfare overseas was not popular, Parker Bowles said.

"Then they went upstairs, and they talked" astir the war, helium said. 

"Really, it was the powerfulness of food. That's what fascinates maine – the powerfulness of nutrient and thing arsenic humble arsenic a blistery dog," said Parker Bowles.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (far right) and King George VI (second from left) dined connected blistery dogs during their gathering successful Hyde Park, New York, successful 1939 – past discussed the ongoing warfare successful Europe.  (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

In those discussions, Roosevelt pledged his enactment to the British Atlantic convoys. The United States would yet supply enactment to the United Kingdom and different Allied powers anterior to its authoritative introduction into World War II successful Dec. 1941. 

"If America hadn't travel into the Second World War, well, God lone knows what would person happened," said Parker Bowles. "So it was a very, precise important blistery dog, nevertheless you look astatine it." 

Other visits to the United States were a batch little consequential successful satellite past – but inactive had immoderate astonishing nutrient moments. 

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During 1 sojourn to the United States, erstwhile President Ronald Reagan and his woman Nancy treated Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip to "a afloat benignant of Californian Tex-Mex feast," Parker Bowles said. 

"I wouldn't person thought [Mexican food] was thing that the precocious queen had seen a batch – you know, benignant of enchiladas and refried beans," helium said. "Delicious food." 

The Reagans maintained a relationship with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Parker Bowles noted, "united by their emotion of horses." 

On 1 sojourn to California, President Ronald Reagan (left) treated Queen Elizabeth (second from left) and Prince Philip (far right) to a "a afloat benignant of Californian Tex-Mex feast," including enchiladas, Parker Bowles said. (Anwar Hussein/Getty Images)

Prince Philip had different hobby that immoderate whitethorn find surprising, noted Parker Bowles: grilling and barbecuing. 

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"He was a large nutrient person and watched each the nutrient TV programs and loved cookbooks and loved cooking," Parker Bowles said.

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Prince Philip adjacent went arsenic acold arsenic to plan his ain grill, Parker Bowles said, calling it "a masterpiece." 

Tom Parker Bowles shares recipes and nutrient anecdotes from the British royal household successful his caller book, "Cooking & the Crown: Royal Recipes from Queen Victoria to King Charles III."  (Ten Speed Press)

The prince "created this unthinkable multi-level grill with antithetic vigor levels – helium has a full trailer that he's designed to spell down the Land Rover," helium said. 

Mark Flanagan, the royal chef, thought highly of Prince Philip's cooking skills arsenic well, Parker Bowles said.

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"[Flanagan] told maine arsenic good that [Prince Philip] would travel done the room and take his ain cuts and marque his ain marinades and was a really, truly bully chef," Parker Bowles said.