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!
Tad Friend
Cherpumple's a treat:
stuffing six sweet tastes in one--
the dessert gavage.
Jenny
Things being equal
I will read of pâte à choux
then still make cookies.
Peter (bonus points for the Charlie photos!)
Charlie! It's braised leeks!
Leeks, lemon juice, olive oil.
Salt. Pepper. More, please!
Jennifer
Bright crimson beauties,
warmed by summer's blazing sun--
sea salt, juicy, gone.
Michael
I call clafoutis
"Cloud Fruities" because, you know,
Call a spade a spade.
Nozlee
I'm willing to bet
that I'll think your dish needs just
a little more salt.
Maddy
Sunny, easy, hard
yolk runniness rule: Diners
micromanage cooks.
Sixty-two degrees
yolk runniness rule: Ha! Cooks
reclaim the egg reins.
Stephanie
Happy birthday cake:
bright color, ornate design--
too bad it tastes gross.
Brette
Eating melon with
a fork and a knife makes me
feel like a lady.
Kenzi
Eating popsicles
makes me feel like I have pig-
tails, though I do not.
Rachel
Eggplants cast aside,
but why? They are kickass and
rock hard in purple.
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