I grew up eating bread and butter. From these accessible ingredients came my first venture in trying to make it taste really good.

POEM: Resemblances

FOODSTUFF LISTING: Marmalade; Eggplant Spread, Pear Confit

Sound Shopping: Food Courting - Upgrade Double Triptych
Assign the grade up from local to global. Join Ed as he courts quaility foodstuffs: beef and java. The product and service signs that foreground the bustle are augmented by the background noise signifying the event.

Luxuriate, accommodate, anticipate, celebrate atmospheric pleasure.

POEM: Menu Referenda

FOODSTUFF LISTING: Calamari Salad, Ed's Southwest Salmon, Peach Tart

There is no profundity, only irony. An auxiliary, condiments bring consistency to a meal, rendering the food palpable.

POEM: Condiments

FOODSTUFF LISTING: Barbecue Sauce (1-2)

“Well, with a little bit of this and that, I throw in the other--something like when, but only now, resulting in something other than that to come up with this.”

My cheese combination came about by making friends with a Shoppe curator who inadvertently guided me in the selection. I was a weekly customer who tasted samples prior to purchase. The curator, she mentored me on how to contexturize: contextualize texture lingually; a vernacular that cannot be described in words or by taste. After I decided on the three cheeses for my artisanal dish, I went home to construct.

What bites, from first to last, are the chews in between, not counting the calories or the carbohydrates.