A Buffet of Words

 Here’s a poem related to food:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56346/going-home-new-orleans


Check out an entire collection of food poems here:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/collections/145091/poetry-and-food


After perusing the food poetry, consider writing about…


ONE: A food you associate with childhood or a specific memory.

TWO: A food you associate with a particular emotion.
THREE: A food most people like that you hate, or one you like that most people hate.

FOUR: Your experience trying some food for the first time, or the most unusual thing you’ve ever eaten.

FIVE: A meal in a fantasy world that is unlike anything of our own world.

SIX: A description to make people hungry for some particular food.


As always, this can be poetry, prose, or drama; you can write nonfiction about yourself or fiction about a character you create. Put an excerpt in the comments and feel free to comment on the comments!

Comments

  1. Letitia MoffittMarch 23, 2022 at 8:52 AM

    Salty sweet bitter sour umami. That's all. It's really quite sad. In my world, a dish that only had five different types of taste would be baby food, and even then the babies would probably spit it out for sheer boredom. My breakfast this morning had at least 17 distinct flavors, and really it was a very simple dish, about the equivalent of your toast-with-butter or cereal-with-milk. The dinner I'm preparing right now will have twice that. Of course you humans basically inhale your food, so what's the point of taste if you don't take time to do so? My dinner will start around sunset and probably finish at dawn. To start, we'll have ...

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  2. RylandMarch 23, 2022 at 8:53 AM

    Garfield has the worst tastes in all of literature. Lasagna is just awful. I am very fond of the Italian cuisine, I would even call it my comfort food. The exception to this rule is lasagna.
    I can eat the lasagne. I can eat the meat. I enjoy these components. It really comes down to one thing in lasagna that makes the whole food dish one that I would throw a fit at in the kitchen like Gordon Ramsay. This ingredient is the ricotta. This is the worst cheese ever crafted. The texture is like a pre-chewed meal and the taste is like a prison meal that nobody wanted.

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    1. Letitia MoffittMarch 23, 2022 at 8:58 AM

      I've tasted it with cottage cheese instead of ricotta. This is not an improvement; it's basically as you described, pre-chewed meal that someone didn't chew very thoroughly, so there's solid bits still in there.

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  3. eveMarch 23, 2022 at 9:00 AM

    Onions are like worms, why would anyone want to eat a worm, least of all me?

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    1. Letitia MoffittMarch 23, 2022 at 9:03 AM

      My mother did most of the cooking when I was a kid, but my dad could make a few things, and one was spaghetti with tomato sauce. But he always included chopped up onions, and I hated when he didn't chop the onions small enough because those wormy bits grossed me out. I'd spend all dinner picking them out of the sauce. Now I think if I had a kid like I was, I'd be pretty irritated with them.

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  4. LiliMarch 23, 2022 at 9:03 AM

    I think back to the summer when we had a cookout with your family
    The 4th of July to be exact
    The air was hot and sticky, and by late afternoon I had dozens raging mosquito bites
    But that didn’t matter
    It was happy
    Everything was happy

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    1. Florence LinMarch 23, 2022 at 9:06 AM

      I have a similar memory

      Out in the backyard
      Five o’clock Friday, mid-July
      My dad on the grill
      My mom playing a playlist
      I sit on the steps,
      I watch my sister and my brother as they play in the yard

      My dad brings me a burger,
      The cheese melted perfectly
      Lettuce and tomato
      A blissful bite.
      Savory and

      A drink of water.

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