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exceptindreams at Let’s meet in a restaurant | Marge Piercy“Let’s meet in a restaurant”
Marge Piercy
Is food the enemy?
Giving a dinner party has become
an ordeal. I lie awake the night
before figuring how to produce
a feast that is vegan, gluten free,
macrobiotic, avoiding all acidic
fruit and tomatoes, wine, all nuts,
low carb and still edible.
Are beetles okay for vegans?
Probably not. Forget chocolate
ants or fried grasshoppers.
Now my brains are cooked.
Finally seven o’clock arrives
and I produce the perfect meal.
At each plate for supper, a bowl
of cleanly washed pebbles. Enjoy!
Marge Piercy
Is food the enemy?
Giving a dinner party has become
an ordeal. I lie awake the night
before figuring how to produce
a feast that is vegan, gluten free,
macrobiotic, avoiding all acidic
fruit and tomatoes, wine, all nuts,
low carb and still edible.
Are beetles okay for vegans?
Probably not. Forget chocolate
ants or fried grasshoppers.
Now my brains are cooked.
Finally seven o’clock arrives
and I produce the perfect meal.
At each plate for supper, a bowl
of cleanly washed pebbles. Enjoy!
Comments
Edited 2017-03-07 11:09 am (UTC)
( other than by serving pebbles, of course)
I'm not much of a cook, so I like to lay out a big build-it-yourself salad bar with lots of choices, and let everybody do their own thing.
To be honest, I quite like the challenge:-p
I remember reading this post, some years back--haven't been able to find it since--posted by someone who'd been a cook for a commune--he gave up in despair after a while, as everyone was squabbling, because:
Those who ate exclusively raw foods wanted lettuce mid-winter, and of course others bristled at the extra expense
Those sticking to the macrobiotic diet wanted everything cooked
Another group wouldn't eat anything with onions in it...
etc.
So after a while, he gave up and left! :P
Perhaps I should have added that I am not the main cook in our household. So it isn't me who usually has to take up the challenge:-p
I'll just lay out the plateware and the tableware and the drinks...;)