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| Introduction | 5 | |
| I | Friends | 13 |
| "O Taste and See" | 15 | |
| "Ode to the Tomato" | 16 | |
| "Sestina" | 18 | |
| "After Apple-Picking" | 19 | |
| Selections from Tender Buttons | 20 | |
| "To Wine" | 22 | |
| "A Step Away from Them" | 22 | |
| "A Supermarket in California" | 24 | |
| "Northern Pike" | 25 | |
| "This Is Just To Say" | 26 | |
| II | Recipes | 29 |
| "Soup" | 31 | |
| "Salt" | 32 | |
| "Kibbe" | 33 | |
| "Gift of Flour" | 34 | |
| "Mustard Greens" | 34 | |
| "Borscht" | 35 | |
| "Green Chile" | 36 | |
| "Fondue" | 37 | |
| "Bread & Sauce" | 37 | |
| "Macaroni & Cheese Survey" | 39 | |
| "Where There's Smoke, There's Dinner" | 40 | |
| "Blueberries" | 40 | |
| "Summer Haiku" | 40 | |
| "Preserves" | 41 | |
| "My Mother's Pie Crust" | 42 | |
| "Recipe for Apple Pie" | 43 | |
| "Tiramasu" | 43 | |
| "Acceptance Speech" | 45 | |
| "Kitchen Logistics" | 46 | |
| "Words, Like Rice and Snow" | 46 | |
| III | Family | 49 |
| "The Morning Baking" | 51 | |
| "A Litany of Toast" | 51 | |
| "Thanksgiving Table" | 52 | |
| "Lunch Dates" | 53 | |
| "Adolescence" | 54 | |
| "How They Survive" | 55 | |
| "Family Portrait" | 56 | |
| "Woolgathering" | 59 | |
| "Blood Oranges" | 60 | |
| "The Cake" | 61 | |
| "The Weight of Sweetness" | 62 | |
| "Fever Bouquet" | 63 | |
| "Vending Machine" | 64 | |
| "My Mother and the Bums" | 64 | |
| "Thirteen" | 65 | |
| "At Ninety-Eight" | 66 | |
| IV | Garden | 67 |
| "The Blackberry Thicket" | 69 | |
| "The Beekeeper" | 69 | |
| "Learning to Clam" | 70 | |
| "Picking Blackberries with a Friend Who Has Been Reading Jacques Lacan" | 71 | |
| "The Story of Butter" | 71 | |
| "Watering the Sheep" | 72 | |
| "Moving, 1880" | 74 | |
| "Hunting Wild Mushrooms" | 75 | |
| "Winter Nightfall" | 76 | |
| "February 2, 1968" | 76 | |
| "Nectar" | 76 | |
| "Murder in the Good Land" | 77 | |
| "Bearded Barley" | 78 | |
| "The Little Permanence" | 79 | |
| "The Recluse Works in Her Country Garden" | 80 | |
| "A Display of Mackerel" | 81 | |
| "Peanut Lockerby" | 84 | |
| V | Stories | 85 |
| "Two Lives: Making Supper at Lake George" | 87 | |
| "My Mother Paints Again" | 88 | |
| "Reading Hemingway" | 89 | |
| "Breakfast at Keseberg's Diner" | 90 | |
| "Revelation: Theresienstadt Story" | 92 | |
| "La Monstrua Vestida, La Monstrua Desnuda" | 93 | |
| "The Harvesters" | 94 | |
| "The Spoon" | 95 | |
| "Fork" | 96 | |
| "Haiku & Senryu" | 96 | |
| "Who Made Such Good Pies" | 97 | |
| "Sharif's Fish Stew" | 98 | |
| "Museum" | 99 | |
| "Eve" | 99 | |
| "The Clover" | 100 | |
| VI | Odes | 103 |
| "Sunday Greens" | 105 | |
| "Ode on a Beet | 106 | |
| "First Radish" | 106 | |
| "Produce Aisle" | 107 | |
| "Grapefruit" | 108 | |
| "Recurring" | 110 | |
| "Insomnia" | 110 | |
| "Black Olives" | 111 | |
| "Finding Peaches in the Desert" | 112 | |
| "Avocado" | 113 | |
| "Ode to a Lebanese Crock of Olives" | 114 | |
| "Cafeteria" | 116 | |
| VII | Love | 117 |
| "The Woman Who Loved To Cook" | 119 | |
| "Reading the Menu" | 120 | |
| "The Baking" | 121 | |
| "Courting Game" | 121 | |
| "Ever After" | 122 | |
| "Cheese Log" | 123 | |
| "Bread and Sex at Midsummer" | 123 | |
| "The Art of Love" | 125 | |
| "Desire" | 125 | |
| "End Pieces" | 127 | |
| "Mussels" | 128 | |
| "Eating Soba" | 130 | |
| "Song of Separation 2" | 131 | |
| "What I Thought I Was Eating" | 132 | |
| "Partytime, Joanna" | 132 | |
| "After the Muffin" | 133 | |
| "My New Boyfriend" | 134 | |
| "My Last Two Wives" | 135 | |
| "Sunday Morning" | 136 | |
| "Da Capo" | 137 | |
| "Litany" | 138 | |
| VIII | Market | 141 |
| "Spring" | 143 | |
| from "Pike Place Market Variations" | 144 | |
| "The Good House" | 145 | |
| "Breakfast at the County Seat Cafe" | 146 | |
| "For My Friends, Who Complain That I Never Write Anything Happy" | 147 | |
| "Elementary" | 148 | |
| "Highway 18, Fairfax, OK" | 149 | |
| "Midwest Albas" | 149 | |
| "Table for One" | 150 | |
| "Found Poem: How to Eat Lobster" | 151 | |
| "Hamburger Heaven" | 152 | |
| "Several for the Road" | 152 | |
| "Sweet Red Peppers, Sun-Drieds, the Hearts of Artichokes" | 153 | |
| "To Market, To Market" | 154 | |
| "Work, Thank, Eat" | 155 | |
| "Crab Festival in Henderson, Louisiana" | 156 | |
| "Understudy" | 158 | |
| "Eating at Casa Blanca" | 159 | |
| IX | World | 161 |
| Selections from "Asian Figures" | 163 | |
| "Saigon Market Peace Talks Sutra" | 164 | |
| "The Evening Toast" | 169 | |
| "Fat Poem" | 170 | |
| "Neighbor" | 170 | |
| "Leningrad" | 171 | |
| "Communion in the Asylum" | 171 | |
| "Black Cherry Ice Cream at Mercy Hospice" | 172 | |
| "Poverty Sucks" | 173 | |
| "Poppies" | 173 | |
| "A Poem for Will, Baking" | 174 | |
| "Milkfish" | 175 | |
| "The Cookie Poem" | 176 | |
| "After the Reunion" | 177 | |
| "Sustenance" | 178 | |
| "At Twig's End" | 180 | |
| "The Cleaving" | 181 | |
| Credits and Acknowledgment | 191 | |
| The Editors | 195 | |
| Graphic of cover from Food Poems #1 | 196 |
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Posted February 15, 2010
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Posted March 3, 2010
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