Potential Titles: Food/Drink - Preparation [Category]

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Bake.

Barbecue:
The beer and barbecue footnote - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Uncles"

Blanche:
The blanched eye of our grief - Aracelis Girmay "Ceremony for Remembering the Doorless World"

Holy horror blanch each brow - Frances E.W. Harper "The Martyr of Alabama"

A blanched moon full of fear - Iris Tree "Bahama Islands I"

Boil.

Brew.

Brine.

Cater:
How we cater to loneliness - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

Churn.

Cook.

Curdle:
Black, curdling fog climbing into their nostrils - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

Sap that curdles milk - D.H. Lawrence "Figs"

To curdle dawns uneaten skin - Betsy Sharp "Alarm"

Crossed and curdled wells and streams - Algernon Swinburne "A Ninth Birthday. February 4, 1883"

Decant:
Decanting these omens - Jordan Zandi "The Circus in Winter"

Distill.

Ferment.

Fry:
Careful chemistry of fried egg - Kay Ulanday Barrett "Root Systems"

Curled ribbons of fried light - Natalie Diaz "Duned"

Steeped in sodium and stir-fry - Wo Chan "[What makes you possible?]"

Kitchen.

Knead:
Filthy hands kneading dough under the cosmos - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"

Of bread kneaded on the moon - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Kneaded out of the formless clay - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Leaven.

Mince:
Fed them platters of minced scandal - Maxwell Bodenheim "Captain Simmons' Wife"

Mull:
Songs like old mulled wine - John Masefield "The Golden City of St. Mary"

Pare:
The blade that pares and cleaves me - Jade Cho "Three Months Since"

Pared until only the edge remained - Nora Hikari "Imago Dei"

Peel.

Percolate:
Of percolation and policy - Erin Belieu "Field"

Dawn oversees percolating coffee - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"

Pickling:
A pickled fig left to dry in the sun - Ana Castillo "These Times"

Pickled in a jar of ink - Angel Garcia "Vestiges"

Outside the old pickle shop - Diane Seuss "Curl"

Pickled in a vat of tears - A.E. Stallings "Olives"

Roast:
Rage roasting me tender - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"

Roasted & packed like a warm thought - Kiki Petrosino "Post-Apocalyptical"

Seasoning:
Seasoned with need - jayy dodd "I Have a New Obsession with Bones"

Hear eclipses' seasoning - Elaine Equi "After and in Keeping with H.D."

Seasoned with sorrows and blasted hopes - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"

Simmer:
Inside your simmering year - Joyelle McSweeney "Simon the Good"

Tomatoes simmered on the summer vines - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"

Sizzle.

Stir.

Stir-Fry:
Steeped in sodium and stir-fry - Wo Chan "[What makes you possible?]"

Toast.

Whisk:
The sun whisking your deepest marrow - Erika L. Sanchez "Portrait of a Wetback"


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