Not so Glorious French Cuisine
The Not so Glorious French Cuisine
The French are fond of foods most Americans
would freak out on, and they’re not bargains.
Let’s start with the least freakish: rabbit (lapin) –
farm raised and bathed in a Dijon mustard sauce –
like chicken say those who’ve tried it.
Quail and pigeon (caille and pigeon) wont kill
your appetite
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Categories:
cuisine, food,
Form: Free verse
Food Missed
The poetry of the COVID era (read to the end)
Thai pineapple rice. Wonton and Yaki Soba
Tortufo ice cream. Scallopini veal, halva and also soda
Tamago, octopus and yellowtail. Ribs, pasta fagioli.
Meat lover’s pie, sword fish, big shrimps and sausage ravioli
Scungili marinara. Milkshake. Plus jalapeño poppers
Yasai roll. Best Lobster bisque and saucy burger whoppers
Wild mushroom omelet. Crunchy
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Categories:
cuisine, america, food,
Form: Rhyme
Mexican Cuisine
I despise enchiladas and margaritas ~ declared no Juan ever
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Categories:
cuisine, appreciation, food,
Form: Monoku
Gotcha! Once respectable haute cuisine thief Sue She
Gotcha! Once respectable haute cuisine thief Sue She...,
a septuagenarian renown for his trademark prank
to steal himself into a neighboring house,
and prepare an elaborate meal
unsuspectedly nabbed gorging
(ala man versus food
Adam Montgomery Richman fame
Brooklyn, New York boy)
at an undisclosed location.
When asked why
he left figurative bread crumbs
to the very doorstep of his demise
with a mouth full of food
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Categories:
cuisine, absence, adventure, america, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
They Eat Good Hot Dogs
They consume the hot dogs
Too
Like you
But they don’t eat the dogs
Never, never
They do not eat the cats
They do not eat the pets
Never, never.
Immigrants eat the wild hogs
That’s hot Griot
They don’t eat the rabbits
But they eat the spicy Tassot
And of course, they eat hot dogs.
Haitians eat and drink Soup Joumou
Which contains vegetables and of course carrots
Haitian
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Categories:
cuisine, africa, betrayal, black african
Form: Rhyme
Singaporean Cuisine
Flavors are thriving
For Singaporean cuisine
The vibe is viving.
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Categories:
cuisine, engagement, food, friendship, places,
Form: Haiku
Jack's Favorite Cuisine
Peanut butter, Jack’s favorite cuisine
‘Til he ate a sandwich that turned him green
Jack overlooked one thing
That gave his sandwich ‘zing’
Pea was spelled ‘Pee’ ~ smelled like a latrine
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Categories:
cuisine, food, sick,
Form: Limerick
Nouvelle Cuisine
NOUVELLE CUISINE
Nouvelle cuisine the waiter said, as he served the food to me
Where’s the rest I asked him, as I’d earlier skipped my tea
Tiny bits of something on a massive bloody dish
I tried to woo my girlfriend by pretending I was swish
You can pick the restaurant, was my very first mistake
I thought she’d pick our
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Categories:
cuisine, food, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Pedigree Cuisine
Perhaps for dinner you might try
A steak and veggie plate
Or some chicken wrapped in nori,
Such a treat to masticate!
At some eateries, the menus
Are creative as food gets,
Which is really a surprise because
The customers are pets.
San Francisco’s restaurant “Dogue”
And Manhattan’s “Judy Z’s”
Offer rawhide bones and cupcakes,
All with canine tastes to please.
Though I understand that owners
Love their
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Categories:
cuisine, dog, food,
Form: Rhyme
Advanced Nouvelle Cuisine
He did his hash slinger training
Then with a couple of his mates
Set up this high class restaurant
Where they didn’t bother with plates,
Just bits of brickkies rubble,
Guttering and such,
Jam jars and slabs of wood
Stuff not costing very much,
And they served minutest portions
Arranged with artistic taste
Just little appetisers really
So very little went to waste.
And they did
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Categories:
cuisine, humor, irony,
Form: Rhyme
Cuisine
racoon beams from trash
gross French food connoisseur, huge
Julia Child fan
Senryu composed January 12, 2021
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Categories:
cuisine, animal, food, french, fun,
Form: Senryu
Tekeli Pitha
My beloved tekeli pitha!
They are rice cakes from Assam.
They are made by steaming them in a kettle (I call tekeli) lid.
Tekeli pitha
or
Kettle cake
tint of jaggery
making love with crushed coconut
cloak in grained rice
and spell of sesame seeds
steam and serve me
i tucked into the pithas in my kitchenette
I live with the aroma here
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Categories:
cuisine, 12th grade, beauty, celebration,
Form: Epic
Green Cuisine
Lurking in fuzzy leftovers is seen
A quivering, crawling hairball of green
A florescent prune
Or cheese from the moon
Gurgles gastric, plastic alien spleen
The miser squire requires gluts of caffeine
To dissect this science project's gangrene
Harpoon on a spoon
Zoom to the saloon
Lunch ladies' supreme mystery cuisine.
3/15/19
For Green Humor contest
Sponsor: Carolyn Devonshire
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Categories:
cuisine, food, funny, nonsense, science
Form: Limerick
My Favourite Food
The aroma of cuisine fills the air,
Pervading from a steel, simmering pot
With a hissing lid that declares beware
What may it be? I haven’t the lone thought.
My curiosity begins to peak,
I gaze, and observe attentively yet
And round a corner I begin to sneak,
Instantly, I feel a twinge of regret
I raise the lid of the simmering pot,
Steam
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Categories:
cuisine, 12th grade, food, fun,
Form: Sonnet
A Halloween Cuisine
Encore, home, I hear a bang while entering the garage door
Indoor, my spouse is shaking, standing next to the drawer
Unsure why she is possessing the Glock purchased from the store
Odor of iron and ammonia, our kid is on the floor
Minor wound, the teen stands up and lets out a horrific roar
Scare by
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Categories:
cuisine, dark, death, halloween,
Form: Monorhyme
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