{"product_id":"cooking-with-the-texas-poets-laureate-volume-11-9781680030204","title":"Cooking with the Texas Poets Laureate: Volume 11","description":"It should come as no surprise that poets are often exceptionally fine cooks, savoring food the way they savor words and at the same time recognizing that just as a gathering of words does not necessarily mean a good poem, neither does a mixture of ingredients necessarily mean a good recipe. In\u003ci\u003e Cooking with the Texas Poets Laureate\u003c\/i\u003e, the editors, all members of Dr. Paul Ruffin's 2014 graduate Editing\/Publishing class, solicited recipes and food-related poetry and prose from Texas Poet Laureates of this millennia. The result is a most unusual gathering of personalities equally comfortable with the spatula or the pen. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEating Texas\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It's taken a long apprenticeship \u003cbr\u003e to make waffles in the shape of Texas. \u003cbr\u003e First there were mountains over Waco. \u003cbr\u003e Then the Panhandle sank. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A few more false starts when \u003cbr\u003e the Red River swamped Oklahoma \u003cbr\u003e and the Rio Grande dripped into Mexico. \u003cbr\u003e Now I can make perfect ones. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e All I have to do is take care \u003cbr\u003e to stop pouring the batter a little shy \u003cbr\u003e of El Paso, Dalhart, and Texarkana. \u003cbr\u003e For some reason, Brownsville needs more. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Otherwise, my grandchildren complain they \u003cbr\u003e don't have the tail of Texas to bite off.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Trp: The University Press of Shsu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781680030204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.82h x 7.19w x 0.17d","brand":"Elizabeth Ethredge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52604411347125,"sku":"9781680030204","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/cooking-with-the-texas-poets-laureate-volume-11-9781680030204","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}