Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs [Paperback]

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Now in paperback with a brand-new author introduction!

Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critiquecomedian 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.

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Wise and funnyANDY RICHTER Revealing, funny, sad, horny, and insatiably curiousSARAH MARSHALL A wild rideROBERT EVANS Deeply incisive and hilariously honestJACK OBRIEN Gonzo yet vulnerableGABE DUNN Hot dogMoby-DickBRANSON 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. Theyre high culture, theyre low culture, theyre sports food, theyre kids' food, theyre hangover food, and theyre deeply American, despite having no basis whatsoever in America's Indigenous traditions. You can love them, you can hate them, but you cant avoid the great American hot dog.

Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogsis part investigation into the cultural and culinary significance of hot dogs and part travelogue documenting a cross-country road trip researching them as theyre 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 2l-