September 12, 2023
Chicken Soup: Seven Attempts
to say it happens, unaided, without sanction, would be untrue — “Pathology,” Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa 1. The kitchen on Medway was our initial sanctuary. You know the place. Thirty-year-old appliances the […]
September 1, 2023
Nearly Every Invading Army Brought Pigs with Them to Feed Their Soldiers
they reproduce so quick generations could be eaten during a single siege. adaptable they followed, devouring towns and forests, so soldiers ate the worlds they invaded. even after illness swept […]
September 1, 2023
Congee Ghazal
After Jimin Seo 細 個喺個舊屋煲電話粥 同Katie同Karen煲電話粥 媽咪話Dal:印度粥oats:鬼妹 話 媽咪話chia糕: 有錢人粥 近來租高山矮漫天大霧 以前多口吱吱噚噚食粥 應該育草育花生兒育女 我個心你個心亂一鍋粥 常常山病其實喺公主病 你唔識煮你去餐館買粥 When I was a girl living in the old house, I boiled phone congee […]
September 1, 2023
Handing Down
The Kenyon Review · “Handing Down” by Meg Reynolds I sit on the floor in front of my daughter’s baby saucer to eat cold forkfuls of pork and cabbage. I […]
September 1, 2023
Plums
The Kenyon Review · “Plums” by Meg Reynolds At birth, my daughter’s mouth was so small that her latch raised blisters on my nipples as black as plums. The nurse […]
September 1, 2023
Sweet Potato
Evening doesn’t touch the green pear or the nested shallots. You are the island it selects in this westward- leaning kitchen, where happiness can look so plain I forget to […]
August 30, 2023
Taste
In my twenties, I proposed to a woman who declined to marry me. Instead she gave me the recipe for her grandmother’s hollandaise sauce and told me our relationship was […]
August 30, 2023
Eating Bitter
The Kenyon Review · “Eating Bitter” by Holly Zhou I wish I could be her ripe bitter melon, my mother’s prized 苦 瓜. My skin the right shade of green […]
August 30, 2023
Thunderhead
The Kenyon Review · “Thunderhead” by Gregory Spatz The ground was cold under David’s shoulder blades despite the heat of the day. Cold and with an incipient damp just beneath […]
August 30, 2023
Porcinis
The Kenyon Review · “Porcinis” by Erin Elizabeth Smith June 2022 A small nebula of mushrooms has escaped my neighbor’s lawn. Round-headed and earthy, they smell of the thick-bodied soups […]
August 30, 2023
Three Niles
The lamb came with them to his grandfather’s house. That would be the boy’s first memory of those days in another life. The slight beast leaning against their luggage in […]