Save Room For Pie: Food Songs And Chewy Ruminations

Our best-laid plans will yield to fate. And we will say, ôWe lived. We ate.ö Roy Blount Jr. is one of AmericaÆs most cherished comic writers. HeÆs been compared to Mark Twain and James Thurber, and his books have been called everything from ôa work of artö (Robert W. Creamer, The New York Times Book Review) to ôa book to read till it falls apartö (Newsweek). Now, in Save Room for Pie, he applies his much-praised wit and charm to a rich and fundamental topic: food. As a lifelong eater, Blount always got along easy with foodùhe didnÆt have to think, he just ate. But food doesnÆt exist in a vacuum; thereÆs the global climate and the global economy to consider, not to mention BlountÆs chronic sinusitis, which constricts his sense of smell, and consequently his taste buds. So while heÆs always frowned on eating with an ulterior motive, times have changed. Save Room for Pie grapples with these and other food-related questions in BlountÆs signature style. Here youÆll find lively meditations on everything from bacon froth to grapefruit, Kobe beef to biscuits. YouÆll also find defenses of gizzards, mullet, okra, cane syrup, watermelon, and boiled peanuts; an imagined dialogue between Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden; input from Louis Armstrong, Frederick Douglass, and Blaze Starr; and of course some shampooed possums and carjacking turkeys. In poems and songs, limericks and fake (or sometimes true) news stories, Blount talks about food in surprising and innovative ways, with all the wit and verve that prompted Garrison Keillor, in The Paris Review, to say: ôBlount is the best. He can be literate, uncouth, and soulful all in one sentence.ö

• | Author: Roy Blount, Jr.
• | Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
• | Publication Date: Mar 21, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Cooking
• | ISBN-10: 0374536880
• | ISBN-13: 9780374536886