Lemons – Tiny Cathedrals of Gold
Lemons, their pitted, nay, prehistoric, skins secreting golden oil, Shielding sourness, evoking memories of a grandmother’s kitchen, A grandfather’s garden. Born in the East, fruitful India, A kiss of...
View ArticleMoonstruck, a Meditation on Earth’s Moon
The crescent moon rises in the early night sky, a scythe among the clouds, sharp against the fading blue and the sun’s dying light. Cooking by the light of the full moon, the shadows in the corners...
View ArticleBlack is the Colour of Food, Too
Blackberries Inspired by Seamus Heaney (Photo credit: C. Bertelsen) “Black is the colour of my true love’s hair, his face is something wondrous fair,” goes a traditional ballad sung in the Appalachian...
View ArticleThe Powers of an Unsung Poet: Finding the Universe in a Fragment
Pomegranate Seeds (Photo credit: C. Bertelsen) Sometimes life hands me gifts in sly ways. A few years ago, I sat in the sunlit reading room at the Schlesinger Library at Harvard, worshiping at the...
View ArticleThe Poetry of Curry, or, a Traveler’s Tale
For numerous reasons, lately I’ve been indulging in one of my passions – cooking the food of the Indian sub-continent. I just ran across again William Makepeace Thackeray’s “A Poem to Curry,” quoted by...
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