Food Poems | Examples of Food Poetry

delightful delectable delicacy warm cherry peach tart with raspberry tea I am so glad I was invited to partake uh-oh, lemon meringue pie and German chocolate cake what kind of grandmother is this? I ask my ma. The kind whose baking stole the heart of my sweet-loving pa. Meringue on pie made my swallow glands salivate. as a cook and a baker,...

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He was a terrific and skilled Italian chef. Forty years ago, he took his final breath. On June the 21st of 1985, Ettore Boiardi passed away. He was born in Borgonovo Val Tidone, Italy and moved to the USA. At the age of 16, he arrived at Ellis Island on a French ship. Now millions are eating his food because...

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Creativity comes and goes. That’s what she believes, she named Cho. Cho happens to be a potato. Creativity comes and goes because Cho just knows. When Cho the potato gets creative, She eases in with simple watercolor. Creativity starts to be invasive as her mind races for more, oh brother. Oils, dance, pottery, and art,...

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Around the kitchen I was bumbling with pots and pans see me fumbling for something yummy with an empty tummy it was rumbling took a long hard look and now I'm mumbling as there's not a lot to cook but bread crusts crumbling long past their sell-by date it's ever-so humbling but there's no point at all this late in grumbling about standing the heat or beating a retreat but better yet...

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Yesterday, I was writing poems about small things— how small beings dwell, how they endure, the quiet life we don't notice. A spider spinning a web in a corner. A bird singing at dawn. They teach us to slow down. To enjoy the little things. To survive softly. But today— I woke up to war. I don’t know who to notice first. The children in Gaza, who are so...

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Two hungry bears are poised to fight Razor sharp claws, like daggers drawn One stole a fish, theft is not right Two hungry bears They’d stalked brown trout since early dawn They’re ravenous, and that’s their plight Last trout had swum upstream to spawn A tasty trout bears love to bite But now all the fresh fish have gone No wonder both are so...

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Why did the teeny, tiny mouse, With the gigantic size cheese, Grow as big as a house And the cheese, smaller than bees?...

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I don't know where iceberg lettuce winter squash or snow peas grow but it seems to me it's not down there in Antarctica where and when it's freezing below which only goes to show pointing out if not advising there's bait and switch in the pitch and no truth to their advertising ...

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Peaches and pies, apples mixed with steamed rice Come and have dinner with me tonight; my stomach is growling, and my appetite is rising There is nothing on the table to eat except passion fruits That fell from the tree and sour mango cream But tonight I have something special for you And it will make your dream come...

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german chocolate cake with coconut frosting cherry jello punch cake with whipped cream champagne cake with seven-minute-icing on my birthday three-layered lemon cake with almond filling I salivate as I think about these lovely delights...

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When, once, a peanut and a walnut met, as covered by the Iowa Gazette, the question good folks asked was whether these two nuts could go together. As a kitchen cook, I must insist - these two nuts can co-exist. ...

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I walk into the kitchen, hands not ready. Out and in again. Walk out without food....

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promotes strong bones and strong teeth potato soup base creamy warm tapioca feta and cheddar chocolate pudding cottage cheese milk...

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in every pack of pistachios there are one or two shells which are resistant to the fingernail the addictive leverage the satisfying splitting apart you put them aside and save them for later meanwhile pick, click, chew and finally return to the awkward ones refusing to yield their treasure curse them go ahead curse them you won't be defeated, you will solve their riddle you...

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The premise goes everyone knows before entering the premises while still outside yet on the mat it's no gentleman who forgets to doff his cap or remove his hat if dining out or at a private party for a particular person it's impolite at most to sip slurp or slink a drink before the toast to a hospitable host and when beside the table laden confronted...

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