A Fourth of July tradition is going to look a bit different this year. Joey Chestnut will not be participating in the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Competition.

NEW YORK CITY (TND) — If I close my eyes and dream up a vignette of the quintessential cookout, concocted with considerable assistance from long-ago childhood memories that somehow still feel like yesterday, I land on my grandparents’ screened-in porch...