from The Gut Sonnets THE DEEP-FRIED RODENT OF HER ABSENCE, A SONNET TO BE READ BY MATT THAT HE MIGHT WIN BACK LISA I…
Popcorn by Braxton Younts Fact-fiction mockumentary cinematography Maize traveled bumpy Andes, through jungles Central America, nourishing natives, colonists, who spread shipping globally through time…
Failing to be One’s Own Father by Peter Burzynski “One should not try to excel one’s father’s industriousness; that makes one sick.” –Nietzsche Sixty-six…
WHAT IS BEAUTIFUL IS LIKE FOOD AND FATTENS ME Oh, gee, jolly am I, and when I am jolly I am The jolliest. When…
Suggestions by Joseph Sciorra Eating alone in a new city, the waitress suggests that I try her favorite sake, junmai nama. Piquant shishito…
How Chef Ido Eats an Orange by Matthew Yeager The great Chef Ido begins by coming to rest, by sitting down on a green park…
My relationship with food has changed a lot throughout the years. I went from being the child in the 70’s in Brooklyn of my…
Musa Paradisiaca by Matthew Ulland Tonight, Santos fries plantains, peels thick green skin, the fruit mashed flat and mixed with crescent garlic moons,…
Sonnet to You by Noelle Kocot Milkiness of sunrise, where’s the traction, eh? You were “left behind,” you were a tomato. I Go along,…