In his new book, Baby Meets World, Nicholas Day sheds a new light on infancy and those mysterious little creatures we call babies. As an excuse to read more of his hilarious writing, we asked him to tell us a little more about babies, share his go-to dinner strategies, and write a haiku. 

We asked for your haiku, we read veggie burger-themed haiku, and the FOOD52 staff even threw their hats in the ring. Now it's time to declare a winner.

The only problem? You're all amazing! We couldn't pick just one -- and there's no prize, anyway -- so we thought we'd highlight all our favorites. You all blew us away with your eloquent words -- add "poet" to the list along with "home cook"!

You'll be hearing from the staff at FOOD52 every week in Too Many Cooks, our group column in which we pool our answers to questions about food, cooking, life, and more.

While we prepare our favorites from your haiku this week, we thought we'd share our own -- the FOOD52 staff (and Amanda's husband Tad, who wanted in on the fun) put on our thinking caps this week to bring you our best 17-syllable poems. The results were surprising -- we have more than one closet poet among us!

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: we’re stuck on haikus. 

We've been amazed and impressed at your poems in this week's Food Haiku Contest -- you're all closet poets! Unrelatedly, several of you have already tried Gena Hamshaw's Zucchini-Quinoa Veggie Burgers and loved them.

The Olympics may be over (and the Summer Food Fights, too) but that somehow our competitive urges still haven't ebbed away. That's why we're announcing the Feed52 Haiku Contest.