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The cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt <\/em>is preparing to release her new book, <\/em>Hot Dog Taste Test<\/a>. Hanawalt\u2019s insouciant, irreverent drawings and stories regularly grace the pages of <\/em>Lucky Peach, and <\/em>a number of the book\u2019s longer pieces appeared there <\/em>first, including her illustrated tour<\/a> of the New York City street-food scene and the James Beard Award\u2013winning <\/em>\u201cOn the Trail with Wylie,\u201d in which she shadows chef Wylie Dufresne for a day: One dish he prepares contains \u201cthe most delicate sea scallops basking in almond oil and a single ravioli made from carrot. I eat the ravioli too fast to see what\u2019s inside, but based on the flavor I would describe it as \u2018sex cheese.\u2019 \u201d<\/em>
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The restaurant critic Jonathan Gold<\/cite> has called Hanawalt \u201cthe Matisse of the buffet line, the O\u2019Keeffe of the fish ball and the Vermeer of the pigeon with a hot dog in its beak.\u201d <\/em>We\u2019re pleased to present excerpts from <\/em>Hot Dog Taste Test, and we can, from firsthand experience, vouch for\u00a0her advice about Merlot. \u2014Nicole Rudick\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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