It should come as no surprise that poets are often exceptionally fine cooks, savouring food the way they savour words. In Cooking with the Texas Poets Laureate, the editors solicited recipes and food-related poetry and prose from Texas Poet Laureates of this millennia. The result is an unusual gathering of personalities equally comfortable with the spatula or the pen.
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.
