Poetry

In honor of Mother’s Day, Kwame Alexander asked a dozen fellow poets for a few stanzas on how their lives—and their cooking—now mirror their mothers’. Here’s what happened next.

There are hundreds, if not thousands of poems about pigs, pig-raising, and pig-eating.

For centuries, chiles have inspired poets to new heights of heated rhetoric, proving our love affair with spicy foods is one for the ages

The late Irish Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney often wrote about food—here are some excerpts from his tastiest work