Overview
Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critiqueācomedian 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.
āWise and funnyā āANDY RICHTER ā¢ āGonzo yet vulnerableā āGABE DUNN ā¢ āHot dog Moby-Dickā āBRANSON REESE ā¢ āRevealing, funny, sad, horny, and insatiably curiousā āSARAH MARSHALL ā¢ āA wild rideā āROBERT EVANS ā¢ āDeeply incisive and hilariously honestā āJACK OāBRIEN ā¢ āOne of the freshest and most insightful new comedic voices of this decade.ā āLINDSAY ELLIS
Hot dogs. Poor people created them. Rich people found a way to charge fifteen dollars for them. Theyāre high culture, theyāre low culture, theyāre sports food, theyāre kids' food, theyāre hangover food, and theyāre deeply American, despite having no basis whatsoever in America's Indigenous traditions. You can love them, you can hate them, but you canāt 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 theyāre 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. Itās 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." āBuzzFeed
"You will certainly never read a funnier book about taking a hot dog-themed road trip across America." āGlamour
This book title, Raw Dog (The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs), ISBN: 9781250847744, by Jamie Loftus, published by Tom Doherty Associates (May 9, 2023) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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