num_pages: 320
description: A NEW YORK TIMES AND INDIE BESTSELLER!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.Featured NPR Weekend Edition  Bon Apptit  Glamour  USA Today  Boston Globe  Eater  Slate  Buzzfeed and moreWise and funny ANDY RICHTER  Revealing funny sad horny and insatiably curious SARAH MARSHALL  A wild ride ROBERT EVANS  Deeply incisive and hilariously honest JACK OBRIEN  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 ELLISHot 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 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 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 2021. Its 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 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.  BuzzFeedYou will certainly never read a funnier book about taking a hot dog-themed road trip across America.  Glamour
language: English
title: Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
publisher: Forge Books