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Sto caricando le informazioni... Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs (edizione 2023)di Jamie Loftus (Autore)
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![]() Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. ![]() ![]() This was a big blend of memoir, travelogue, and food history with humor sprinkled throughout. I enjoyed the history of the hot dog and definitely loved learning more about the various geographical regions throughout the US as I am familiar with some but not a lot, but the personal stuff was more annoying for me unfortunately (and I’m a massive memoir fan—road trip stuff is usually my jam). I realized that I’ve listened to the author before on her podcast about joining Mensa, and so I remembered that she can be a mix of likable and unlikeable heroine which I guess covers all media she’s involved in. I was pretty excited about this book, I thought it would be a good read. How great that someone has gone on this crazy nationwide trip to experience Hot Dogs from sea to shining sea. Living under a rock, maybe, I wasn't aware that Jamie Loftus is a Comedian, nor was I aware of her brand of humor. Having read the book, I now know, she isn't targeting people like me, and neither is her book, which is a shame. I enjoy reading, and can appreciate different styles, techniques and descriptions, but Jamie Loftus' preferred comparisons were all vulgar. When she gets to Coney Island and the Nathan's Hot Dog Competition, she spends several paragraphs wondering who is F**king who. When she makes it to Chicago, she acknowledges their Hot Dogs are different, and her comparison is "It's fine, I'm from Boston and our 'signature soup' looks like c*m of a very sick person." And this is a common theme throughout the book. I guess my point is how does this add anything to the book? As I said before, clearly, I am not her target audience. No one likes every book they read, and this one wasn't for me. Aspects were interesting; I hadn't realized all the regional variations and follower each has. I admire her stamina and her thoroughness. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"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. 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. "One of the freshest and most insightful new comedic voices of this decade." -LINDSAY ELLIS"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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