A Food Poem: From my grandmother, Catherine Pickett Coffey--this was exactly her recipe, written out on a piece of paper, given to my mother, Eleanor Coffey, and transcribed directly as the last ...

This story is part of "Queer As Food," a series that explores the role of food in LGBTQ+ communities. You can know what you need before you know why. For example, ten-year-old me, who leans on the ...

now that’s a lot of gall And oy, the bread and produce,and snack foods, salt and sweet,can’t afford that pot roast?there’s a mortgage for your meat! Plant a veggie garden?oh doesn’t that ...

and vinegar for no one knows how long. Stephanie Burt is a professor of English at Harvard, and is the author of several books of poetry and criticism, including her most recent, Don't Read Poetry ...