Our first theme is “Preparing Food”. Eating is instinctive—we’re born knowing how to do it. But preparing food is an art and a science. The details vary from culture to culture and age to age. But always, what we prepare and how we go about it reflects our situation in life and our values as individuals and as a culture.
Our second theme, “Food and People,” focuses on how food and occasions to eat can affect the way we feel about the world and even how we define ourselves. Meals in every culture are occasions for social interaction.
This third group of poems, “Remembering Food,” reflects how food interacts with our concept of time – food has the ability to evoke emotions, sometimes remembered, sometimes borrowed from memories or descriptions from others.
"Playing with Food” is the title of our last group of poems. Whether playing with words or descriptions, or using food as a pretext - a way of talking about something different altogether without giving everything away to your reader at the start – these poems all approach food in a unique way.
