Image courtesy of Eat This Poem
Our greatest hope with Gather is that it motivates people to cook. And we have been so pleased to discover how many people are enjoying bringing the recipes to life in their own kitchens. But blogger Nicole Gulotta takes it a step further. Her brilliantly conceived-of (and beautifully-designed) blog Eat This Poem combines two of our very favorite things: food and words. Gulotta, a grantmaker with an MFA in poetry, uses poems to inspire cooking (sometimes with recipes of her own design, sometimes with other chef’s). Her choices are clever (“This is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams paired with Ina Garten’s plum tarte tatin), and the images lovely in that soft-focus dreamy kind of way, but what really draws us in is Gulotta’s passion and knowledge. Her focused analysis of the poems (in the way that only a creative writing grad can do) and careful consideration of the recipes to follow is inspiring. This week, Gulotta did us the honor of including my tiny leek haiku from the current issue of Gather, pairing it with a leek risotto that we can’t wait to test-drive. FIORELLA V
