Food

Meredith Russo was born, raised, and currently resides in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She is a mother to a wonderful four year old, a terrible cat, and a host of exciting neuroses.…

When a person at a family event asks me what I like to do in my spare time, and I say “cook,” my mother invariably chimes in with this story…

Carolina Ebeid was born in West New York, NJ and is the author of You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior (Noemi Press). She holds an MFA from the Michener Center…

Growing up in Texas meant vast options of fast food, even for my Chinese-American family whose eating habits leaned toward Buddhist vegetarian. As a matter of fact, it always seemed…

1976: This cursed bloodline begat me. Cries at cold air. The beginnings of pain. 1979: Health freak mother teaches me that soda pop and the red cherries on top of…

In one month, we’ll meet their daughter. For now, we navigate runny duck yolks. “It’s not worth it,” her partner says. “You’re in the final stretch.” Instead we order cheese…

 Jos Charles is a trans poet, translator, editor, and author of feeld, a National Book Award long-listed finalist and winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, selected by Fady Joudah (Milkweed…

“Wait, you’ve never had a plum?!” My father stares at me, incredulous. It is mid-May, 2015. My father, mother, and I are sitting at our kitchen table, talking over empty…

Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), recipient of the 2016 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and a 2018 Arab American Book Award.…

1. Char grilled eggplant into a new form, its purple skin flaking and twirling around the fork as you try to cut it, the insides almost mush and mostly seeds.…

Rewind to 2016. Breaking up from my Los Angeles boyfriend. An inch of white at scalp divides long dyed black tresses. I take a vow of celibacy until the gray…

Nomi Stone is a poet and an anthropologist. Her second collection of poems, Kill Class is forthcoming from Tupelo Press in 2019. Winner of a 2018 Pushcart Prize, Stone’s poems…

This is cooking for abandoned hopes. For the path that fails or, rather, fails you. I am not sure what generational identity or identifying can do for us at this…

The pig, Swine, an animal unfit for consumption by many, deemed unclean. An animal that can be utilized head to tail—as with the fine art of charcuterie. To take a…