Cooking with the Muse offers 150 nutritious international recipes with a plenitude of imaginative poetry about food and ingredients, along with enlightening literary essays, playful culinary and historical notes, and 200 beautiful full-color photographs. Here's a feast of words and images, with easy-to-follow steps for preparing individual dishes and whole meals.
The book includes a vast array of classic and contemporary poems, each perfectly paired, like a fine wine, with each dish.
In addition to poetry and poetic prose by Massimilla and Kornfeld, pieces included here represent such authors as: Homer, Lu Tong, Rumi, Chaucer, Basho, Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, Claude McKay, Pablo Neruda, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Galway Kinnell, Zora Neale Hurston, Mary Oliver, Seamus Heaney, Tom Robbins, Wendell Berry, Michael Ondaatje, Billy Collins, Jorie Graham, Jane Hirshfield, and a great many others.
