Description: In Cooking with the Texas Poets Laureate, the editors, all members of Dr. Paul Ruffin's 2014 graduate Editing/Publishing class, solicited recipes and food-related poetry and prose from Texas Poet Laureates. The result is a most unusual gathering of personalities equally comfortable with the spatula or the pen.
Review Quotes: "Mark Twain said, 'Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.' I think that about says it all. No. Wait. It doesn't. It leaves out Mama and tradition and holidays and how just about any kind of pie makes us smarter. It leaves out how food drives communication and bonding. That's unimportant. Through a generous mix of recipes and words the Poets Laureate of Texas give us the true secret of success in life: savor every bite and syllable. Mama would be proud."
--Alan Birkelbach, Texas Poet Laureate 2008