Bob Lucky
Culinary Notes: Add Something
The most important thing I learned today after hours of online scrolling: Hawaiian pizza was created in Canada in 1962, by a Greek immigrant.
I don’t like blue cheese, hick that I am, but if that’s what the salad is wearing, I don’t call off dinner.
Before I die, I want to walk out of a diner somewhere and say to the waitress, “Please tell the cook that my grandmother would rise from her grave to die for that lemon meringue pie.”
Just heating up leftovers shows a lack of imagination. Add an onion or a lot of chiles. Add something because if you are what you eat, you might want to spice it up.
midnight snack
my never-ending
funeral cookbook
Author’s Note: Funeral cookbooks are a type of funeral book in Thailand. Here’s a link to an article that helps explain that: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/funeral-cookbooks. I keep making notes for my own haibun funeral cookbook, but I’m getting nowhere because I would rather cook and eat than die.
About the Author
Bob Lucky‘s books include My Wife & Other Adventures (Red Moon Press, 2024), My Thology: Not Always True But Always Truth (Cyberwit, 2019), and Conversation Starters in a Language No One Speaks (SurVision Books, 2018), a winner of the 2018 James Tate Poetry Prize. Lucky lives in Portugal, where he’s working his way through all the regional cheeses and wines.