Save Room for Pie
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.64 (604 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1622319982 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 221 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. Blount’s southern upbringing takes center stage as he smacks his lips and his prose.” BooklistPraise 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. Blount revels in unabashed omnivorism. 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 Jo
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"Disappointing" according to John F. Brock. It turns out that a little Blount goes a long way. Some of this stuff is pretty funny, but one is left with the impression that he had a hundred good pages but need twice that many to make 200.. "Four Stars" according to L. Miller. Enjoyed book but was a little too distracted almost ADHD otherwise would have been a 5 star.. Three Stars Not a very engaging book
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. 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. He can be literate, uncouth, and soulful all in one sentence.". Here you'll find lively meditations on everything from bacon froth to grapefruit, Kobe beef to biscuits. As a lifelong eater, Roy Blount always got along easy with food?he didn't have to think, he just ate. Save Room for Pie grapples with these and other food-related questions in Blount's signature style. So while he's always frowned on eating with an ulterior motive, times have changed. 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