Save Room for Pie by Blount-Jr., Roy -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Notice Dedication Epigraph Author’s Note Part I: Why I Eat

It’s Good to Eat But Nothing Is Simple The Way Folks Are Meant to Eat

Part 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 Egg 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 Going Geechy Geechy 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 Come Back to New Orleans! (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

Notes Acknowledgments Also by Roy Blount Jr. A Note About the Author Newsletter Sign-up Contents Copyright

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