"When poets — write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane."
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"Writers’ Hunger: Food as Metaphor," The New York Times (19 August 1986)
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