let us now praise famous foods

[substitute]

Consider the onion;
Mother of a thousand thousand meals
How can word or thought encompass
All its power and beauty?

Just give thanks and eat.

Comments

[besskeloid.livejournal.com]

Eat an onion? Are you pregnant?

[handstil.livejournal.com]

I hated onions so much until I was about 29 that I used to say i was allergic to them so that there would be no accidental stray onion on my dinner plate. Recently, I have started making my own curries and thus, a beautiful friendship (Mmmmm, friends) has begun. I still don't go for raw white onion but I love some sauteed yellow or fresh red. I can't believe I snubbed them for so long.

[eyeteeth.livejournal.com]

homph homph genus Allium

[dreamyshade.livejournal.com]

Onion,
luminous flask,
your beauty formed
petal by petal,
crystal scales expanded you
and in the secrecy of the dark earth
your belly grew round with dew.