Cooking with the Texas Poets Laureate: Volume 11 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781680030204)

It should come as no surprise that poets are often exceptionally fine cooks, savoring food the way they savor words and at the same time recognizing that just as a gathering of words does not necessarily mean a good poem, neither does a mixture of ingredients necessarily mean a good recipe. In Cooking with the Texas Poets Laureate, the editors, all members of Dr. Paul Ruffin's 2014 graduate Editing/Publishing class, solicited recipes and food-related poetry and prose from Texas Poet Laureates of this millennia. The result is a most unusual gathering of personalities equally comfortable with the spatula or the pen.

Eating Texas

It's taken a long apprenticeship
to make waffles in the shape of Texas.
First there were mountains over Waco.
Then the Panhandle sank.

A few more false starts when
the Red River swamped Oklahoma
and the Rio Grande dripped into Mexico.
Now I can make perfect ones.

All I have to do is take care
to stop pouring the batter a little shy
of El Paso, Dalhart, and Texarkana.
For some reason, Brownsville needs more.

Otherwise, my grandchildren complain they
don't have the tail of Texas to bite off.

Author: Elizabeth Ethredge
ISBN-10: 1680030205
ISBN-13: 9781680030204
Publisher: Trp: The University Press of Shsu
Language: English
Published: 05/07/2015
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.82h x 7.19w x 0.17d