{"product_id":"save-room-for-pie-food-songs-and-chewy-ruminations","title":"Save Room for Pie: Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations","description":"\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAlphabet Juice\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAlphabetter Juice\u003c\/i\u003e, Roy Blount Jr. put a humorous and genre-defying spin on the English language. Now, with the same wit and charm, he tackles a topic just as rich and fundamental: food.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a lifelong eater, Blount and food always got along easy--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; words and stories from Robert E. Lee, Louis Armstrong, and Frederick Douglass; and of course some shampooed possums and carjacking turkeys.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar Straus Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42985514336336,"sku":"9780374175207B","price":11.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/save-room-for-pie-food-songs-and-chewy-ruminations","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}