Binding: Hardcover
Description: A NEW YORK Times AND Indie Bestseller! Part travelogue part culinary history all capitalist critique comedian Jamie Loftus's debut Raw Dog will take you on a cross - country road trip in the summer of 2021, and reveal what the creation culture and class influence of hot dogs says about America now. A Best Book of the Year from NPR and Vulture. Featured in: NPR Weekend Edition Bon App tit Oprah Daily Glamour NY Mag Splendid Table The Wall Street Journal Eater Betches US a Today Boston Globe Eater Slate The Next Big Idea Club Buzzfeed and more Wise and funny ANDY Richter Revealing funny sad horny and insatiably curious Sarah Marshall A wild ride Robert Evans Deeply incisive and hilariously honest JACK O Brien Gonzo yet vulnerable GABE DUNN Hot dog Moby - Dick Branson Reese One of the freshest and most insightful new comedic voices of this decade. Lindsay Ellis Hot dogs. Poor people created them. Rich people found a way to charge fifteen dollars for them. They re high culture they re low culture they re sports food they re kids food they re hangover food and they re deeply American despite having no basis whatsoever in America's Indigenous traditions. You can love them you can hate them but you can t avoid the great American hot dog. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs is part investigation into the cultural and culinary significance of hot dogs and part travelog documenting a cross - country road trip researching them as they re served today. From avocado and spice in the West to ass - shattering chili in the East to an entire salad on a slice of meat in Chicago Loftus her pets and her ex eat their way across the country during the strange summer of 2021. It's a brief window into the year between waves of a plague that the American government has the resources to temper but not the interest. So grab a dog lay out your picnic blanket and dig into the delicious and inevitable product of centuries of violence poverty and ambition now rolling around at your local 7 - Eleven. The hardcover edition of Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs includes gorgeous endpapers an illustrated case as well as illustrations by the author throughout." Raw Dog will leave you nourished." Buzz Feed" You will certainly never read a funnier book about taking a hot dog - themed road trip across America." Glamour" A journey both silly and profound." Vulture Best Books of 2023
Title: Raw Dog The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
Author(s): Loftus Jamie
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Barcode: 9781250847744
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 5/23/2023
Category: Travel Writing