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With all of the cookbooks you can find now-days at a bookstore you might think there would be a similarly large volume of poems on the subject, but they seem to be rather rare.

Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow sliver bullet fed to a flying fish. - Carl Sandburg

1. Beer by George Arnold
2. Dinner in a Quick Lunch Room by Stephen Vincent Benét
3. Address to a Haggis by Robert Burns

   only Burns would write a poem in praise of a sausage

4. Beautiful Soup by Lewis Carroll
5. The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll
6. A Cider Song by G. K. Chesterton
7. Wine and Water by G. K. Chesterton
8. To The Immortal Memory of the Halibut by William Cowper
9. Ale by W. H. Davies
10. The Ballade of the Glutton by Norman Rowland Gale
11. Cherries by Wilfred Gibson
12. Raisin Pie by Edgar Guest
13. With strawberries we filled a tray by William Ernest Henley
14. Oberon's Feast by Robert Herrick

    definitely a strange menu

15. Of Books and Cheese by John Heywood
16. Sparkling and Bright by Charles Fenno Hoffman
17. Mint Julep by Charles Fenno Hoffman
18. The Hair-Tonic Bottle by Ben King

    parodies Woodworth's The Old Oaken Bucket

19. Drinking Song by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
20. Oh, For a Bowl of Fat Canary by John Lyly
21. The Nut-Brown Ale by John Marston
22. A Toast by George Santayana
23. Sonnet to a Clam by John Godfrey Saxe
24. To a Goose by Robert Southey
25. The Cantelope by Bayard Taylor

    a quaint memory of a lost love

26. The Ballad of Bouillabaisse by William Makepeace Thackeray
27. Persicos Odi by William Makepeace Thackeray
28. Christmas Cheer by Thomas Tusser
29. The Gourmet's Love Song by P. G. Wodehouse