Soul food of culinary frequencies and mighty roots

My Great Grandma Ina, taught her sons, my Paw-Paw and my Uncle Horace how to cook, because that was too much power to give up to no gal as she was apt to say, my Bigmama told me. History served to repeat as my Uncle Kent was summarily a bad man in kitchen spaces in his own right.

The poetry of food
via the culinary
gon’ be told…
if it goes right
perhaps it’ll
be legendary
but not necessarily,
let’s be prudent
as I reiterate
that food…
is poetry,
y’all eat yet?
Let me set the table:
Pescatarian, Plant-based and Vegan
coming together
poetically
like fusion
to give taste buds,
reunions by way
of recipes
rooted in family
trees where histories
and notions
of greatness
is known
to repeat.

Trust and believe
these hunger pangs
won’t get the
time of day
around you,
simplicity in the dishes…
it is the poetry,
or the diction of
a shared humanity
that makes it
exquisite.

Be patient… I’m almost done.

I’ll show you how to be heroic with a bag of ramen… and lime basil.
Soul Bowls… are recipes or ingredients likened to a grand reunion of family, but in culinary frequencies, a shared commonality of all humanity.
Food for the soul… by way of a meal is how histories echo in families, the frequency of the culinary meets love.
These are called Holla Collards, because people holla, when they find out that there is no meat in them and then, they ask for more… with the Oliver Twist face… they are a versatile addition to recipes.
Pairings inspired by the roots of a mighty tree, they get along, gloriously.
Pescatarian, Plant-based and Vegan… no poultry, beef or pork on these forks… I remixed or created based on my 30 years of being Pescatarian… and I recreated my Paw-Paw’s Salmon Croquette recipe from taste memory along the way.
Salmon Omelet… Roasted vegetables no time for yawning, work to do, this is on a brunch work list... Holla Collards can stretch a dollar in lean times, I’m just saying.
I’ve gotten an appreciation for spices around the world… in the culinary connectivity of humanity by way of food.

Food poetry… by way of your host: Shun P.

P.S… yes, I prefer the roll cut on my fresh Collards (I’ll discuss in the forthcoming book).


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  1. Let us know when that recipe book hits the shelves!

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