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.
Which is why we were understandably thrilled to hear that there exists an intersection between veggie burgers and short Japanese poetry! Lukas Volger -- cookbook author and writer of this beautiful essay here on FOOD52 -- hosted his own haiku contest two years ago. The occasion was the release of his first cookbook, Veggie Burgers Every Which Way, and the prompt asked simply, "What did you think of the very first veggie burger you ever ate?"
The results are amazing, and definitely worth a look. Our favorite:
wait just a second.
is this a kernel of CORN?
i can hang with that.
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