Best Cooking Poems

Rare Cooking This Fine Morn

To have deep-thoughts, dreams a poet slowly eats
Or spiced casseroles of ink-piggy feats?
Meals written on yellow paper to enjoy.
Chinese fried rice with steamed adjective soy!

Experience new dishes, of rare flavor
Spread like butterfly wings upon glazed ham.
Pour tasty hot liquid words to...

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I endured burnt offerings at the table -
A meal ‘cooked’ by my mother in law
If I hadn’t been married her lovely son
I’d have walked straight out of the door!

I heaved at every charred mouthful
Smiled, and said the meal was ‘divine’
She told me she’d had cookery...

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Summer Cooking
Its summer time you know what that means,
We move the grill out for all to see.
Stainless Steel shining in the sun,
Five burners! Yea that’s the one!
Then the family comes over and the heat is on
You’re thinking to yourself “this is not fun”
Sweat is pouring...

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So versatile is the potato.
It’s orange; it’s yellow; it’s white; it’s sweet.
It’s baked or boiled; it’s mashed or fried.
It’s served with poultry, with fish or with meat.

I love to cook, and I have for you
three recipes for potato dishes.
Not too expensive, they’re easy and fast.
But...

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Shhhhh, here comes the Warden
He’s just about to open the door, Frank

Well, that’s good ‘cause I’ve been in this slammer too long!
and, it way too cold in here, Patty!

I never did ask you Frank, what are you in for?

Wrong time at the wrong grocery store,...

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My Two German Beaux,On a TVCooking Show

Oh, how I love sauerbraten 
and that divine apple strudel!
But it was even better to see
Guy Fieri with my two old German 
Chicago beaux on his TV show!
Why, I nearly lost my noodle!

There they were,still very comely,
on the cooking channel.
Making...

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A barbequed jerk chicken
Saltfish and okra
Snapper & avocado
Fruit & rum cake with
Coconut ice-cream
Steel drium high
Fry!...

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if i'm a judge
then don't 
judge me
i will sip
a bit of
this

one and then a bit
of that and then
all the others
six at hand
or should
i say

at mouth and tongue
soups alphabetically 
which have different 
degrees of tastes
after all how
does one

take a taste of haiku
and try to compare
au contraire...

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COOKING WITH JIM                      

actually, with him in spirit, in the kitchen 
of his quaint brownstone on West 12th Street
in Manhattan, decades after his death.

And...

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My wife can't cook as well as my mother. 
When cooking a meal, there is no other. 
With roasts, stews, or spaghetti sauce, 
in the kitchen, my mother is the boss. 
I married a girl like the one that married dear old dad. 
I still...

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Rock cake 
          Tooth break...

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Do you
Bake in depression
Do you
Fire an expression
Do you
Grill a digression
Do you
Boil a transgression
Do you
Eat with regression
Do you
Feed on obsession
Do you
Cook a confession
Do you
Puke out oppression
Do you
Spread a jam session
Do you
Mix a rap sensation
Or just
Make an impression
Well
Do you...

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Autumn begins with one fact,
Sounded by first egg to crack.
   With eggs mixed In a batter, 
   The outcome won't matter
Because smoke is filling the shack....

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Around the corner and half a block away, the flavor would grab me, tie me up to some irresistible force, then drag my nose to the source of its home.  The aroma that wafted in the air and up my whiffer was sweet and...

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In my college years, I tried to cook
N
D
I employed Betty Crocker's cookbook
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T
If I truly had learned,
B
I'd make meals that aren't burned
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Ick, they taste even worse than they look!
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Written 9 Nov 2020...

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