Cooking with the Texas Poets Laureate: Volume 11

By: Ethredge, Elizabeth

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1680030205
• ISBN13: 9781680030204
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Trp: The University Press of Shsu
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.2" x 8.8"