# Raw Dog: The Naked Truth about Hot Dogs - Hardcover

by **Jamie Loftus** (Author)

**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.

Featured in: _NPR Weekend Edition_ - _Bon Appétit_ - _Glamour_ - _NY Mag_ **\-** **_Betches_** **\-** **_USA Today_ - _Boston Globe_ - _Eater_ \- _Slate_ \- _The Next Big Idea Club_** **\-** **_Buzzfeed_ and more  
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**"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." --_BuzzFeed_

"You will certainly never read a funnier book about taking a hot dog-themed road trip across America." --_Glamour  
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### Author Biography

**JAMIE LOFTUS** is a comedian, Emmy-nominated TV writer, and podcaster. She's worked as a staff writer on _Teenage Euthanasia_, _Robot Chicken_, and _Star Trek: Lower Decks_, and wrote and starred in her own web series for Comedy Central. She writes and hosts popular limited-run podcasts--"My Year In Mensa" (2019), "Lolita Podcast" (2020), "Aack Cast" (2021), and "Ghost Church" (2022)--and cohosts, with screenwriter Caitlin Durante, a podcast on the How Stuff Works Network called "the Bechdel Cast." She has her baby teeth bronzed and loaded into a slingshot.

**Number of Pages:** 320

**Dimensions:** 1.13 x 8.54 x 5.7 IN

**Publication Date:** May 23, 2023

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- **Price:** 26.99 USD
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