| Cooking with the Texas Poets Laureate Contributor(s): Ethredge, Elizabeth (Editor), Horton, Gary (Editor), Baker, Joanna (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1680030205 ISBN-13: 9781680030204 Publisher: Texas Review Press OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Cooking | Beverages - Alcoholic- General - Cooking | Comfort Food - Cooking | Courses & Dishes - Bread |
| Dewey: 641.597 |
| LCCN: 2014033032 |
| Physical Information: 0.17" H x 7.19" W x 8.82" (0.81 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |