Dear Abby: I have seen letters in your column from people upset that their guests don’t help them after dinner. I am the opposite. I held onto a poem you printed years ago and had it perma-plaqued and ...

This is part of the oldest known recipe-poem in western literature, from the Yale Culinary Tablets, dating back to 1750 BC. The poem describes a delicacy fit for the Babylonian royals, made with ...

Nithya Mariam John’s short, crisp verses have the sweetness of elayada, the salty-spicy tang of cut mango and the freshness of lacy appams at sunrise. Poet, translator and assistant professor of ...

After finding fans among cookery and literary enthusiasts (including the Naipauls), novelist Dhiruben Patel’s kitchen poems land a Marathi translation. After finding fans among cookery and literary ...

With BV Bharathi’s Kitchen Poems, Kannada women’s writing has come full circle. It is 50 years since they criticised women’s writing as kitchen writing—Adigemane Sahitya—and Bharathi’s book of kitchen ...

When Padmavathi Rao, a veteran actress and theatre personality, read Dhiruben Patel’s Kitchen Poems – a compilation of 100 kitchen-centric poems, she was reminded of her school friends (as young as ...

The music of phrases and sentences guides the rhythms of writing, but it is not often that an author lets it take centre stage.

A poem Abby printed decades ago has helped a reader for decades. Dear Abby: I have seen letters in your column from people upset that their guests don’t help them after dinner. I am the opposite. I ...

DEAR ABBY: I have seen letters in your column from people upset that their guests don’t help them after dinner. I am the opposite. I held onto a poem you printed years ago and had it perma-plaqued and ...