Oscar G. Mayer, the hot dog mogul, has died at the age of 95. A quick search on AbeBooks reveals there are several books to have emerged from the Weiner World of Oscar Mayer. My favourite is called All About Sausage from 1973 – look at that amazing cover from the 1970s. There was also the Oscar Mayer Celebration Cookbook, which celebrated the company’s 100th anniversary in 1983.
It would appear that Oscar G Mayer self published a memoir, called My Memories, in 1998 and there is one signed copy on the site. Why did Mayer have to self publish? Surely, he had an amazing story to tell – his hot dogs became a huge part of American popular culture.
