Consider and discuss the titles of each essay. How do the titles relate to the content of the essay - are they ironic? Are they puns? Are they illuminations? Are they hints?

The significance of the titles varies throughout the book. Some, like "A Cold Case", are relatively straight-forward, and essentially sum up one or more important elements in the essays which they front. Others, like "#2 to Go" are complex puns: in this case, at the head of an essay on Chinese eating habits, the title is a play on the idea that many Chinese restaurants group their meals under numbered headings; similarly, Chinese restaurants offer takeout service (i.e. "to go"); while #2 is common slang for poop, crap, or shit (as the author refers to it). Given that human defecation is also a focus of the essay, #2 is an interesting element of dark humor to add...