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Topic: Nigella
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Xena Moderator Posts: 398 From: UK Registered: Jun 2006
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posted March 22, 2008 08:27 AM
(Another alliterative poem, about Nigella Lawson, UK TV chef). Chestnut castanets with choucroute, Parma provides pork panacea; Silken sauces senses stir, Gourmand's greatest elixir. Rabbits and rarebits, rumpsteaks and ryebreads, Seamless sonnets of seasoned samphire; Creamed crustacean with crushed cranberry, No uber-boiled cabbage for me; Lolling lobsters long to levitate, Drop dangerously into depths; Parchment pastry pies protects, Choreographed in circling context; Aesthetic aspic freezes fruit (No fondue forks to spoil the shoot); Poems of poussin and partridge prevail, Exquisite quinces and quail; Apple aperitifs, asparagus spears, No truculent tears for me; Gourmet goddess, curse of crash-diets, Bacchus babe; my horn of plenty Stays me for better or for worse, A glass half-full; rarely half-empty. (C) ME, Mar.20 2008 IP: Logged |
fieryscales Moderator Posts: 172 From: Registered: Jan 2008
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posted March 23, 2008 02:58 AM
Good one!IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 25241 From: Columbus, GA USA Registered: Nov 2000
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posted March 25, 2008 01:39 PM
Very clever and well-thought out. Amazing!------------------ "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." Charles Schultz IP: Logged |
Xena Moderator Posts: 398 From: UK Registered: Jun 2006
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posted March 26, 2008 05:09 PM
Thank you!!! IP: Logged |
Quinnie Knowflake Posts: 690 From: Belfast, Ireland Registered: Jul 2002
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posted March 29, 2008 10:18 AM
Very sensual. Is the idea metaphoring Nigella's with her food? Got like inuendos in there?
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Xena Moderator Posts: 398 From: UK Registered: Jun 2006
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posted March 31, 2008 09:56 AM
Not sure it's so much innuendo as just purely *food* sensual - but yeah, it is a pastiche of Nigella IP: Logged |
TINK Knowflake Posts: 3803 From: New England Registered: Mar 2003
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posted March 31, 2008 02:56 PM
I love this! oh the glories of the Food Network ... IP: Logged |
MysticMelody Moderator Posts: 3460 From: Registered: Dec 2005
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posted March 31, 2008 04:19 PM
It's very nice, but I don't have cable (don't know the culinary artIst) so it just leaves me with a vague sense of guilt over my current cooking skills... A nice foil would be a Rachel Ray alliteration. Think loud, brash, fast, tuna casserole with herbs. lol I have a weird sense of humor. IP: Logged |