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Food Poem Fridays: The Best of Both
Every Friday, we’re mixing things up with a different kind of food writing. More specifically, food poetry to be read slowly, over your morning coffee. This week: tomatoes.
Coming hand in hand with tomato season is a tomato dilemma: what to do with them all? At the office, we’re partial to just a drizzle of olive oil and a bit of salt, but that’s because we hardly have the patience to wait any longer to eat them. The walk back from the market is about all we can usually stand.
Our latest food poem, published in Alimentum, muses on this summertime dilemma. If you want a poetic solution, this one is for you.
The Best of Both by Nancy Vienneau
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Tags: what we're reading, alimentum, food poem fridays, poetry, tomatoes
kenzi
I have a serious thing for any food topped with a fried egg, a strange kind of disdain for overly soupy tomato sauce, and I can never make it home without ripping off the end of a newly-bought baguette. Most of my daydreams involve cooking in a yellow-walled kitchen.
Comments (4)
10 months ago SaritaTX
Suggestion for next week:
Roses are red.
Bacon is red.
Poems are hard.
Bacon.
I believe that was Shakespeare.
10 months ago modi-k
Salvatingley wonderful poem!!
10 months ago kenzi
Kenzi is an Assistant Editor of Food52.
Doesn't it make you hungry??
10 months ago pierino
pierino is a trusted source on General Cooking and Tough Love.
Well, stone fruit is in season, so from T.S. Elliot's "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock":
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I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.>>