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Save Room for Pie

by Roy Blount, Jr.
Roy Blount
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As a lifelong eater, Roy 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."

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  • Release date

    March 15, 2016

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781622319992
      • File size: 245111 KB
      • Duration: 08:30:38

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Author-narrator Roy Blount, Jr., has a passion for food, especially eating it. In this amusing collection of essays, poems, and musings on a variety of food-related topics, Blount pokes fun at a number of foodie fads, such as molecular cuisine, and presents the pros and cons of controversial foods, like okra. His signature sense of humor takes center stage as he shares his thoughts on such topics as Southern and regional foods, gardening, fishing, and travel. Blount's relaxed, comfortable style and soft Southern accent make listeners feel as if they're sitting on the front porch on summer's night, sipping sweet tea and swapping stories with a friend. With its multitude of short pieces, this audiobook is a great choice for commuters. C.B.L. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from April 25, 2016
      Humorist Blount’s latest collection of essays, poems, and songs about all things edible will leave listeners reflecting about their own relationships with food. Blount’s mature, twangy, and raspy voice remains charming throughout and matches well with the tone of the prose, illustrating that Blount is not just a skillful writer but a dab performer as well. This production reveals a range of style and delivery, from the languid and reflective to the musical and jolly. Blount finds just the right pace, emphasis, and mood for each segment. More than on the page, Blount’s spoken wisdom and wit becomes transparent as one hears the wordplay and even the beauty of the prose he has constructed. Readers may enjoy his book, but listeners will revel in his performance. A FSG/Crichton hardcover.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 25, 2016
      While the topic of food has frequently crept into the works of prolific writer and humorist Blount (Alphabetter Juice), this latest marks the first time he’s fully sunk his teeth into the subject, offering course after course of essays, poems, and songs about all things edible. Culled from segments on NPR’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” and fragments from his column in Garden and Gun magazine, along with whatever has captured his interest, the book consists of (and is best read in) small, manageable chunks covering everything from Southern hospitality (in which he defends the polarizing vegetable okra) to the proper appreciation of a good steak (“eating a steak should be like wrestling a worthy opponent”), and the nobility of a cork’s presence in a whisky bottle. Eminently quotable, informative, and entertaining, Blount makes for a genial host, regaling the reader with story after story. Agent: Esther Newberg, ICM.

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