Potential Titles: Food - Eating/Drinking (mostly verbs) [category]

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Appetite.

Bread-Breaking:
Satisfied before bread-breaking - Mina Loy "The Dead"

Calorie:
The calorie content of the Diet of Worms - Howard Nemerov "To David, About His Education"

Chew.

Devour.

Diet.

Digest.

Dine.

Drink/Drank.

Drunk.

Eat.

Famish.

Fed/Feed.

Glut.

Gnaw.

Gobble:
Russia gobbling your world half in - "Intervention" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

Gorge.

Graze.

Gulp:
Wolf dark matter gulfs in gassy gulps - Mike Allen "Deluge"

Vast dragon-gulps of steam - Harriet Monroe "In the Yellowstone"

Hunger/Hungry.

Imbibe.

Ingest:
Ingested by terror - C. K. Williams "And Fear"

Masticate:
Masticate the ash of witness - Aria Aber "Can You Describe Your Years in Prison"

Meal.

Nibble.

Nourish.

Picnic.

Quaff.

Savor.

Sip.

Slake.

Starve.

Sup:
We supped instead each night on Chopin - Rita Dove "Transit"

They that supped with War - George Sterling "Tidal, King of Nations"

Sit and sup to-night among the tawdry crowd - Theodore Wratislaw "To Salomé at St. James's" [The Yellow Book v.III, Oct. 1894]

Swig:
Another stolen swig of whiskey - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

Swill:
I swill down a cup of dusk haze - Wang An-Shih "Spring Rain" transl. by David Hinton

Thirst.

Toast.


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