{"product_id":"save-room-for-pie-food-songs-and-chewy-ruminations-paperback","title":"Save Room for Pie: Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRoy Blount  Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur best-laid plans will yield to fate.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd we will say, \"We lived. We ate.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRoy 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, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBook Review\u003c\/i\u003e) to \"a book to read till it falls apart\" (\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e). Now, in \u003ci\u003eSave Room for Pie\u003c\/i\u003e, he applies his much-praised wit and charm to a rich and fundamental topic: food. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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. \u003ci\u003eSave Room for Pie\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, to say: \"Blount is the best. He can be literate, uncouth, and soulful all in one sentence.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoy Blount Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than twenty books covering subjects from the Pittsburgh Steelers to Robert E. Lee to what dogs are thinking. He is a regular panelist on NPR's \u003ci\u003eWait, Wait . . . Don't Tell Me!\u003c\/i\u003e and is a member of the American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel (the latter of which inspired \u003ci\u003eAlphabet Juice\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAlphabetter Juice\u003c\/i\u003e). Born in Indianapolis and raised in Decatur, Georgia, Blount now lives in western Massachusetts with his wife, the painter Joan Griswold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 21, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52444371419443,"sku":"9780374536886","price":30.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/aUNlOUUrYkthZjlMY00vNTYxbnJWUT09.webp?v=1758938257","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/save-room-for-pie-food-songs-and-chewy-ruminations-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}