Food Poems | Examples of Food Poetry

I open the oven door to a blast of heat and hot bread bulging out of a high tin, brown, crusty and ready to be taken out. That smell wafts across seventy years to when I can remember bread being delivered in a horse and cart. Carrying a big wicker basket full of hot bread, the baker would run house to house whilst...

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voor CINDY ANSONG Je eten is heerlijk de pittigheid en hartige toevoeging naar de schemering is een aangrijpende kreet een gesloten lengte. Als de nek van een giraf uit de wolken die volledig tevreden is Ik slaakte een geschrokken kreet met een DANKJEWEL. ...

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Downwind of the Halal Cart my stomach starts to growl Foreign smells have filled the air my appetite to prowl Those places I have yet to go but memory knows so well Another life another time where Heaven — sleeps with Hell (The Corner Of 34th & Market Streets: July, 2025) ...

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snowy white with shiny granulated crystals pink yellow and red candy sprinkles on the top brain freeze at first bite...

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P olish up your best spoons everyone! O ne taste and you'll ask for seconds E xceptional quality in the finest dishes T ry at least one item from the menu R udeness is not tolerated Y our empty bowl awaits to be filled... S pecial soup for you, bon appetit! O rganized restaurant, well-written recipes U nited are we by one common...

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the fast food ad from 1942 made me chuckle as a wife featured a thin woman who probably never ate meat in her life Surrounded by all of these burgers made the ad seem insane. I bet this teeny tiny model had never had a malt or weight gain....

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All the French I can take - piece of cake. A baguette or croissants? Paris tempts. Cream inside; lick my lips. Morrow’s trip. ...

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I sit on a straight back red vinyl chair in a Chinese Take Away waiting for my beef and black bean sauce, pork chow mein and a serving of special fried rice - hear from behind a beaded rainbow coloured curtain the sizzle and spit of hot oil, the constant sound of a ladle scraping the sides of a wok,...

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“Wake up, breakfast is cooking.” Bacon in cast iron skillet, sounds and smells, wafted through the tent. “Coming”, the crackling bacon got me! ...

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I've oft been offered but not tempted by large helpings of pie in the sky from too many crooks who indeed the broth did spoil and so as not to be sullied by such greasy oil I stay out of their kitchen not because I can't stand the heat but what's on their menu ain't my cup of meat apple or cherry by the slice...

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A boy walks slow through halls of glass, His shadow flickers, thin as grass. Each step a secret, each breath a theft, Of hunger’s war and weightless heft. They whisper when they think he’s gone, “Is he okay? He looks withdrawn.” But laughter fades when backs are turned, And eyes like his are never learned. His plate remains a battlefield— Each bite a blade,...

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I recently received a cookbook that was given to my older brother A hand-me-down from my dad that was passed down from his mother After I use my cookbook, and before my time is done I'll keep my family's tradition going, and I'll give it to my son...

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I never liked tomato soup - that thick slurry of red in a white bowl - childhood winters, Friday nights with a menacing dark pressing against the window as if trying to get in. Tomato soup looked too much like blood poured out of that suffering pictured in the vivid imagery hung along the stations of a child's mind no matter if blest by grace. When...

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"Eat your veggies," as a nipper I was told but I'd hide 'em on me lap so Mum wouldn't scold then all the quicker feed 'em to the dish-licker before they were even cold now I'm older not sadder but wiser and do enjoy a tasty appetiser they may appear to look like a pear here's a myth I wish to quash tho'...

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“Why is it called a toothbrush?” (he asked rhetorically) as I use it to brush more than one it makes no sense to me surely 'teethbrush' would be correct for dental care and gums so from now on that's what I'll use to remove food residue between my teeth while I still have some ...

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