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Save Room for Pie: Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations, Blount Jr., Roy, Good Book
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- ISBN
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374175209
ISBN-13
9780374175207
eBay Product ID (ePID)
211812112
Product Key Features
Book Title
Save Room for Pie : Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Subjects & Themes / General, Form / Essays
Publication Year
2016
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Cooking, Humor
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-036049
Reviews
Praise for Alphabet Juice "The immensely likeable Blount clearly possesses what was called in the Italian Renaissance ' sprezzatura ,' that rare and enviable ability to do even the most difficult things without breaking a sweat." - Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World, Praise for Save Room for Pie "Pithy and cleverly entertaining. . . . Blount revels in unabashed omnivorism. . . . Blount's southern upbringing takes center stage as he smacks his lips and his prose." -- Booklist Praise for Roy Blount, Jr. "You'd be pulling off a major stunt / To hold in your laughter while reading Roy Blount." --DENNIS DRABELLE, The Washington Post "Roy Blount Jr. is one of the most clever (see sly, witty, cunning, nimble) wordsmiths cavorting in the English language, or what remains of it." --CARL HIAASEN, author of Bad Monkey "[Roy Blount Jr.'s] many columns celebrating food can cause a reader to salivate." --MERRITT MOSELEY, Sewanee Review "Roy Blount Jr. is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off an essay as elegant and intricately structured as a birdsong. His ear for American speech is better than anybody's." --IAN FRAZIER "Reading a collection of articles by Roy Blount Jr. is like panning for gold at Tiffany's--you know the nuggets will be there, the only question is their brilliance." --DAVID E. JONES, Chicago Tribune, Praise for Save Room for Pie "[Blount] knows from rhythm and melody. His prose can sing in deft comic rifts." --Robert Pinsky, The New York Times Book Review "A distinct delight . . . Like a cook over a large stew pot, he loves stirring up a mess of words, swirling them this way and that, taking some out, putting some in, and then pouring his concoctions out in savory servings." -- The Wall Street Journal "Roy Blount, Jr., is smart and witty, no matter what subject he tackles" -- Shelf Awareness "Pithy and cleverly entertaining. . . . Blount revels in unabashed omnivorism. . . . Blount's southern upbringing takes center stage as he smacks his lips and his prose." -- Booklist Praise for Roy Blount, Jr. "You'd be pulling off a major stunt / To hold in your laughter while reading Roy Blount." --DENNIS DRABELLE, The Washington Post "Roy Blount Jr. is one of the most clever (see sly, witty, cunning, nimble) wordsmiths cavorting in the English language, or what remains of it." --CARL HIAASEN, author of Bad Monkey "[Roy Blount Jr.'s] many columns celebrating food can cause a reader to salivate." --MERRITT MOSELEY, Sewanee Review "Roy Blount Jr. is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off an essay as elegant and intricately structured as a birdsong. His ear for American speech is better than anybody's." --IAN FRAZIER "Reading a collection of articles by Roy Blount Jr. is like panning for gold at Tiffany's--you know the nuggets will be there, the only question is their brilliance." --DAVID E. JONES, Chicago Tribune, Praise for Roy Blount, Jr. "You'd be pulling off a major stunt / To hold in your laughter while reading Roy Blount." --DENNIS DRABELLE, The Washington Post "Roy Blount Jr. is one of the most clever (see sly, witty, cunning, nimble) wordsmiths cavorting in the English language, or what remains of it." --CARL HIAASEN, author of Bad Monkey "[Roy Blount Jr.'s] many columns celebrating food can cause a reader to salivate." --MERRITT MOSELEY, Sewanee Review "Roy Blount Jr. is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off an essay as elegant and intricately structured as a birdsong. His ear for American speech is better than anybody's." --IAN FRAZIER "Reading a collection of articles by Roy Blount Jr. is like panning for gold at Tiffany's--you know the nuggets will be there, the only question is their brilliance." --DAVID E. JONES, Chicago Tribune, Praise for Save Room for Pie "[Blount] knows from rhythm and melody. His prose can sing in deft comic rifts." --Robert Pinsky, The New York Times Book Review "A distinct delight . . . Like a cook over a large stew pot, he loves stirring up a mess of words, swirling them this way and that, taking some out, putting some in, and then pouring his concoctions out in savory servings." -- The Wall Street Journal "Pithy and cleverly entertaining. . . . Blount revels in unabashed omnivorism. . . . Blount's southern upbringing takes center stage as he smacks his lips and his prose." -- Booklist Praise for Roy Blount, Jr. "You'd be pulling off a major stunt / To hold in your laughter while reading Roy Blount." --DENNIS DRABELLE, The Washington Post "Roy Blount Jr. is one of the most clever (see sly, witty, cunning, nimble) wordsmiths cavorting in the English language, or what remains of it." --CARL HIAASEN, author of Bad Monkey "[Roy Blount Jr.'s] many columns celebrating food can cause a reader to salivate." --MERRITT MOSELEY, Sewanee Review "Roy Blount Jr. is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off an essay as elegant and intricately structured as a birdsong. His ear for American speech is better than anybody's." --IAN FRAZIER "Reading a collection of articles by Roy Blount Jr. is like panning for gold at Tiffany's--you know the nuggets will be there, the only question is their brilliance." --DAVID E. JONES, Chicago Tribune
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
641.3
Table Of Content
Table d'Contents I: Why I Eat It's Good to Eat But Nothing is Simple The Way Folks Are Meant to Eat II: Essentials Song to the Apple Animals Eat Bear Notes How About Sheep? Hold the Foam Song to Decent Pizza I Could See Just Overalls The Fall: A One-Act Song to Hot Dogs But Ain't Nothing Wrong With a Varsity Dog Song to Hamburgers The Lowdown on Southern Hospitality Song to Grease Song to Eggs Ironic Biscuits? Song to Gumbo Boiling the F -Thing Down A Grapefruit Moment Let the Last Word in Appetite Not Be Petite Part III: Meat of the Land Steak, Generally Song to Beef Steak, Environmentally Chicken Medley More to a Chicken Song to Ribs Song to Bacon Hymn to Ham Song to Pig Knuckles Yes to Gizzards Part IV: Meat of the Waters Song to Oysters Born for the Pan Have a Little River Song to Catfish Just Put the Hairdo Out of Your Mind Fishing Hard (as of 1976) Sharing Oysters Part V: Plants Song to Onions Song to Okra Okraphobia Song to Love Apples A Paean to Southern Peas Boiled Peanuts: Be Not Afraid Song to Beans Song to the Lentil Song to Legumes in General Carrot Whimsy Song to a Nice Baked Potata Song to Beets The Fall of Corn Song to Grits Hold the Cheese Part VI: Drink Song on Drink Whiskey Drinking With Kate Smith Part VII: Food in the Arts Food Names for Bands, I Louis, Louis, Louis, Fats and Slim Food Names for Bands, II Mississippi Music Notes For Champion Crickets, No Wheaties Food Names for Bands, III Some Spicy Limericks Pimento Easter Eggss Food Names for Bands, IV Part VIII: Incidentals Ro*Tel It on the Mountain Song to Catsup Song to Barbecue Sauce Brunswick Stew: Scalable? I Don't Eat Dirt Personally The W-word A Dark Sweetness Part IX: Process Dream Song Yellow Squash Crisps Eating Out of House and Home Song to Cooking Out Over an Open Fire in the Open Air With Crickets . . . Compost Happens Weed-dating May Work For Some Between Meals Song Green Pea Lover's Lament Bees of the Anthropocene Part X: Trips What We Ate in Japan Incident in the Times Square Nathan's Buttered Kittens Last Night Man Here Tried to Be a Good Citizen of the D Train June, Spoon . . . Ticks du Pays Hyenas Feel Good About Themselves Wild Fish Ripped My Flesh The Pirate Captain Addresses the Crew You Can Tell a Good Possum Thanksgiving Eve: What Happened in the Wood New Orleans Coming Back, 2007 Part XI: Dessert Pie: The Quest Song to Homemade Ice Cream Song to Peaches No Sweetness in a Stone Mark Twain's Pie Dream Song to Pie
Synopsis
Our best-laid plans will yield to fate. And we will say, "We lived. We ate." Roy Blount Jr. is one of America's most cherished comic writers. He's been compared to Mark Twain and James Thurber, and his books have been called everything from "a work of art" (Robert W. Creamer, The New York Times Book Review ) to "a book to read till it falls apart" ( 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 food--he didn't have to think, he just ate. But food doesn't exist in a vacuum; there's the global climate and the global economy to consider, not to mention Blount's chronic sinusitis, which constricts his sense of smell, and consequently his taste buds. So while he's always frowned on eating with an ulterior motive, times have changed. Save Room for Pie grapples with these and other food-related questions in Blount's signature style. Here you'll find lively meditations on everything from bacon froth to grapefruit, Kobe beef to biscuits. You'll 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: "Blount is the best. He can be literate, uncouth, and soulful all in one sentence."
LC Classification Number
TX355.5.B56 2016
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