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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
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Registered: Jan 2008
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posted March 23, 2008 02:58 AM
 Good one!IP: Logged |
Randall
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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!------------------
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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
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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 |
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