Brer Rabbit Molasses Sugar Cookies - Brer Rabbit Recipes (2024)

WHAT IF? An imaginary record cover for a compilation of food-inspired music.

AOL recently contacted me to create a playlist of food-inspired songs for its "Blogger Radio" station on AOL Radio (see below for details on how to listen). After much digging through my own music collection (and some serendipitous searching online), I came up with 100 songs.

There's a heavy emphasis upon jazz and blues, a slathering of R&B, a douse of hip-hop, along with a sprinkling of pop classics and a dusting of heavy metal (o.k., just one -- Def Leppard's cheesetastic "Pour Some Sugar on Me").

As I pored over all of this gastro-music, it became pretty clear that food is more often than not a (barely veiled) euphemism for sex. Candy seems to trump just about everything edible as the most frequent object of desire. Other songs are culinary in name only (take Taste of Honey's "Sukiyaki," for example), while others immerse themselves in a heady contemplation of appetite -- I'm thinking here of the Fat Boys' great, tragicomic "Jail House Rap." And then there's food as abstraction in the form of Dizzy Gillespie's manic be-bop standard, "Salt Peanuts."

You can find the complete playlist (in alphabetical order) below. It's not comprehensive, so if you have a favorite food song that isn't covered here, please share it in the comments.

Tune In: For PC Users, listen by clicking here. If you're on a Mac, download the AOL Radio player, log in with your AOL/AIM screenname, and select "Blogger Radio" under the "Soundtracks & Themes" category. The playlist will be up until June 14, when the station gets turned over to the next DJ/blogger.

Tasty! Songs for Food Lovers

1. All That Meat And No Potatoes by Fats Waller
2. All You Can Eat by the Fat Boys
3. Artichoke by Cibo Matto
4. Augustus Gloop by Danny Elfman
5. Augustus Gloop by The Poozies
6. Banana Boat (Day-O) by Harry Belafonte
7. Beans And Cornbread by Louis Jordan
8. Beef Jerky by Cibo Matto
9. Birthday Cake by Cibo Matto
10. Black Coffee In Bed by Squeeze
11. Bowl Of Oranges by Bright Eyes
12. Brown Sugar by D'Angelo
13. Brown Sugar by the Rolling Stones
14. Candy by Cameo
15. Candy by Morphine
16. Candy (Drippin' Like Water) by Snoop Dogg
17. Candy Shop by 50 Cent
18. Catfish by Bob Dylan
19. Catfish Blues by Jimi Hendrix
20. Chicken Grease by D'Angelo
21. Chicken Noodle Soup by Webstar & Young B
22. Chicken Soup With Rice by Carole King
23. Chocolate Buttermilk by Kool & The Gang
24. Chocolate City by Parliament
25. Chocolate Factory by R. Kelly
26. Choux Pastry Heart by Corinne Bailey Rae
27. Cigarettes And Chocolate Milk by Rufus Wainwright
28. Cookin' by Clifford Brown
29. Crawfish by Elvis Presley
30. Days Of Wine And Roses by Henry Mancini
31. Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On The Bedpost by Lonnie Donegan
32. Drinks by Twista
33. Egg Man by the Beastie Boys
34. Eggs And Sausage by Tom Waits
35. Fried Chicken by Ice-T
36. Giblet Gravy by George Benson
37. Gimme That Wine by Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
38. Gin And Juice by Snoop Doggy Dogg
39. Glass Onion by The Beatles
40. Gone Sugaring by Mirah
41. Green Onions by Booker T & The MG's
42. Grits by James Brown
43. Ham 'N' Eggs by A Tribe Called Quest
44. Happy Meal II by The Cardigans
45. Home Cookin' by Horace Silver
46. Honey by Moby
47. Honey Pie by The Beatles
48. I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl by Nina Simone
49. I Want Candy by Bow Wow Wow
50. Ice Cream Castles by The Time
51. Ice Cream Man by Tom Waits
52. Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice
53. It Should Have Been Me by Ray Charles
54. Jail House Rap by Fat Boys
55. Juicebox by The Strokes
56. Juicy Fruit by Mtume
57. Know Your Chicken by Cibo Matto
58. Lady Marmalade by LaBelle
59. Le Jazz Et Le Gin by Coralie Clement
60. Le Pain Perdu by Cibo Matto
61. Milkcow Blues Boogie by Elvis Presley
62. Milkshake by Kelis
63. Mother Popcorn by James Brown
64. My Sweet Potato by Booker T & The MG's
65. Old Joe's Place by The Folksmen
66. One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer by John Lee Hooker
67. Orange Crush by R.E.M.
68. Oregano Flow (Gumbo Soup Mix) by Digital Underground
69. Otha Fish by The Pharcyde
70. Pimp Juice by Nelly
71. Pot Kettle Black by Wilco
72. Potato Head Blues by Louis Armstrong
73. Potato's In The Paddy Wagon by The New Main Street Singers
74. Pour Some Sugar On Me by Def Leppard
75. Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) by Squeeze
76. Quiche Lorraine by The B-52's
77. Rapper's Delight by Sugarhill Gang
78. Red Apples by Cat Power
79. Red Vines by Aimee Mann
80. Salt Peanuts by Dizzy Gillespie
81. Salt Peanuts by Joshua Redman
82. Savoy Truffle by The Beatles
83. Shanghai Noodle Factory by Traffic
84. Spanish Grease by Willie Bobo
85. Straight, No Chaser by Thelonious Monk
86. Struttin' With Some Barbecue by Louis Armstrong
87. Sukiyaki by A Taste Of Honey
88. Sweets For My Sweet by The Drifters
89. Taco WIth A Pork Chop by Ray Brown, John Clayton, Christian McBride
90. Tacos, Enchiladas And Beans by Doris Day
91. Tea For Two by Ella Fitzgerald
92. Tea For Two by Fats Waller
93. The Coffee Song by Frank Sinatra
94. The Lemon Song by Led Zeppelin
95. Too Much Sugar For A Dime by Merle Travis
96. Watermelon Man by Mongo Santamaria
97. White Pepper Ice Cream by Cibo Matto
98. Wild Honey by U2
99. Yes! We Have No Bananas by Louis Prima
100. You're Not The Only Oyster In The Stew by Fats Waller

POSTED BY JOSH FRIEDLAND

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