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Today’s Take Action Prompt: Culinary Exploration
By Sandra Lee Schubert | July 9, 2008
Culinary exploration – Name a favorite food from your childhood, teenage and young adult years, and where you are now. It could be the same food or a different food for each period of time. What made that a favorite food? What are the good and bad memories associated with it? As an example I have a fondness for French fries. They remind me of the ones my father would bring home to us when I was little. They were slightly soggy, salty and wrapped in brown paper. These fries were a special treat we loved to eat.
Culinary reading – Find some food related poems, stories or books. What appeals to you about them? What scared or amazed you?
Taste is Sweet - The book Fruitflesh has some wonderful writing exercises centered on food. If you have a chance pick it up and use some of the suggestions in it. If not, pick some food of different tastes and textures. Feel it, touch it, smell it and taste it. See the food as if for the very first time. Write your impressions. Write a poem of short story around the food item or items you have selected.
Remember taste is sense that can inspire us. We have the unique advantage to experience it most of the time. Explore it and let food be your muse.
© 2008 Sandra Lee Schubert www.writing-for-life.com
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