Annual Haiku Challenge: Grating Food Issues
A year ago when our site was revealed to the Greater Ethernet, we asked readers to submit a haiku, awarding a prize to what we felt captured the theme the best. This August we want to repeat the contest. This time tell us what food issue really bothers you, really gets your dander up, really grates on your nerves. Write it in haiku form please. 5/7/5 syllables. Here’s help: Write-a-haiku.
The winner will receive one of my most favorite kitchen gadgets, a microplane zester which is not just for lemons. All those vivid dishes we make with grated ginger, like 
Caribbean Lime Halibut, Vegetable Chicken Teriyaki, Asian Noodle Salad, Homemade Curry Paste and this week’s Composed Edamame Tofu Salad with Sesame Chile Dressing are just a teeny bit easier to make if you have this handy tool around. Remember, before you grate your ginger, you need to peel it.
Ok. Show us your haiku. Here’s mine:
Food fads make me scream
Butter will not stop your heart
Read label, home cook
Winner announced on August 25th.
-Cynthia
Tags: contest, food issues, ginger, give-away, grater, Haiku, microplane zester, prize
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if white flour is now
equal to a snickers bar
then i love it more
Comment by Jennifer — August 14, 2009 @ 9:56 am
If cheap food is best
And farmers are only hicks
We are truly lost
Comment by Paul — August 14, 2009 @ 2:44 pm
Eat your vegetables
Yes, our bodies love whole foods
Sing, health, happiness!
Glorious Whole Foods
Strength, Health, Love, Restore Balance
Shout it out today!
Kasha, Mushrooms, Eggs
Cynthia’s Peasant Papas
A Beautiful Blend!
Here are 3
Si
Comment by Si — August 14, 2009 @ 2:47 pm
Here’s another one! These are fun.
Grass Fed Animals
Equal less Inflammation
Eat Omega 3’s!
Si
Comment by Si — August 14, 2009 @ 3:03 pm
All right, I’m addicted to these! One more for good luck…
Pastured, Grass Fed, Wild
Sing it: More Vitamin E
And Omega 3’s
Comment by Si — August 14, 2009 @ 3:10 pm
Faster, faster meals!
Dinner in just five minutes?
Respect your food, please.
Comment by Becky — August 14, 2009 @ 4:01 pm
Junk food, really bad
Possible to make healthy
Help cut health care costs!
Comment by Jan Frampton Hillman — August 14, 2009 @ 4:42 pm
Healthy cooking rocks!
Happy kids eating good food
Makes this mom happy.
Comment by Carrie — August 14, 2009 @ 4:54 pm
Twinkies are not food
“Food-like substance” is a stretch
Pollan says plants, please
Comment by Amie — August 15, 2009 @ 1:44 am
The raw food diet
Will solve our obesity?
Stoves are not to blame!
Comment by Amie — August 15, 2009 @ 2:04 am
Better Nutrients
Fresh, Local, Organic, Yea!
Better Flavor Too
Parsley, Basil, Thyme
Oh, the wonders of Fresh Herbs
Aroma, Flavor!
Rosemary Red Soup
Carrots, Beets, Red Lentils, Thyme
You’ve got to try it!
Comment by Si — August 15, 2009 @ 11:57 am
You are what you eat
I am farmers’ market fruit
Sweet, zesty, wholesome
Comment by TRISTA — August 15, 2009 @ 1:47 pm
I know you are three
bread is your favorite friend
veggies come lets eat
Comment by Christina — August 15, 2009 @ 7:06 pm
All fats are not bad
olives and avocados
just don’t eat french fries
Diet fads abound
common sense out the window
just don’t supersize
Why are kids obese
pop machines in all the schools
quarter pounder please
Comment by Leigh Hall — August 17, 2009 @ 7:50 am
Slow down, for Pete’s sake
No cell phones at the table!
Eat, share, laugh, enjoy
Comment by Cara — August 17, 2009 @ 11:32 am
Seven year old friend
would not eat lunch his mom made
Says he likes ketchup
Parental effort
ineffective on sweet boy
To nourish and please
I obsess nightly
What ingredient could make
him eat heartily!?!?!?
Comment by TRISTA — August 19, 2009 @ 7:28 pm
No carbs? I would miss
My potatoes, grains and fruit.
So satisfying.
Comment by Jennifer A. — August 20, 2009 @ 4:14 pm
Fresh, raw, crisp salad
Not triple-washed, in a bag
Make mine crunchy, please.
Comment by Jean Leigh — August 20, 2009 @ 4:54 pm
Creamy Sauces I adore
Lean Cuisine is such a bore
Yours make me want more
Comment by Jean Leigh — August 20, 2009 @ 4:58 pm
An oily marriage
Simmers in a fragrant broth
No measuring spoons
Comment by Gena — August 20, 2009 @ 5:00 pm
egg yolks will kill you
nuts will make you really fat
here’s to more statins!
sure we eat some greens
kale makes great decoration
oregeno too!
“YoBaby” yogurt
sugar-packed foods for our kids
marketing beguiles
Comment by erika siegel — August 20, 2009 @ 5:21 pm
trying to teach you
which foods are empty nonsense
“BROWN rice cakes OK?”
Comment by erika siegel — August 20, 2009 @ 5:26 pm
each time I’m surprised
patient says they eat healthy
“Catch” obesity?!??!
Comment by erika siegel — August 20, 2009 @ 5:31 pm
“your kid eats SEAWEED”!?!??!
mine would never touch it
course I don’t offer
Comment by erika siegel — August 20, 2009 @ 5:33 pm
(can’t seem to stop!:)
they’d have us believe
without beloved cow’s milk
our kids would shrivel
Comment by erika siegel — August 20, 2009 @ 5:34 pm
Oops! Got distracted trying to learn haiku writing and forgot the part about “grating issues”.
Here’s another try:
Rice, Corn, Sacred seed
On desecrated altar
Butchered DNA
Comment by Gena — August 20, 2009 @ 5:47 pm
Yum yum in my tum
Children call for carrot sticks
yay my work is done!
Comment by Órla — August 20, 2009 @ 7:20 pm
Stick hands in the bowl
Spoon is for the faint hearted
Feel the food you eat!
Comment by Órla — August 20, 2009 @ 7:21 pm
(Recipe for a coronary meltdown):
Eggs, rum, and butter
Swedish love in the kitchen
stirring up heartsick
(The Triumvirate: Local, Home-cooked, Simple):
The ripe strawberry
Needs nothing but rides tartly
the barge of shortbread.
(Ode to Simplicity Movement):
My honed knife minces
garlic, and the pan sizzles.
I need little else.
(Climate Change Blues):
Purple plums green yet,
but crusts and two cups of sugar
set on the counter.
(Waste not the dwindling resources):
I am left proudly
with bones and skin, stems and peel.
You enjoy the rest.
Comment by Ann Spiers — August 21, 2009 @ 9:43 am
I like to eat food.
I also enjoy sleeping.
Frustration is gone.
Comment by Oscar — August 21, 2009 @ 11:19 am
bottled water fad
plastic filling our landfills
please drink from the tap
Comment by Kelly — August 24, 2009 @ 8:20 am
Bacon everywhere
Cupcakes, drinks, chocolate-dipped
Stop — the pigs are sad
Top chef — do we care?
Who’s winning the latest round?
Go home — cook instead
CSA? Market?
Support your farmers — hurry
or we’ll have none left
Big corporations
add chemicals to food: buy
local, organic!
Macronutrients:
Fat, it’s one, do not avoid!
Enjoy! Eat fat now!
Comment by Elsa — August 24, 2009 @ 9:06 pm
food issue: gourmet lunch truck fad
” Pulled Pork”
Downtown Seattle
a pig-shaped diner on wheels
portable feast beast
Comment by P. J. Hand — August 24, 2009 @ 11:03 pm
food issue: appliance abuse
“Shocking”
Used toaster oven
out on the porch. Forgot. Now
hot rain or wet toast ?
Comment by P. J. Hand — August 24, 2009 @ 11:10 pm
food issue: nutrionally incorrect food/ guilty pleasure
“Yes and No”
Leftover pizza
cold with a diet coke, yes
so bad, no, so good
Comment by P. J. Hand — August 24, 2009 @ 11:18 pm
Sorry, first one wasn’t a haiku. This one is:
Too little remains
Of traditional knowledge.
Grandma’s kitchen knows!
Comment by Jon Clark — August 25, 2009 @ 5:37 am
oops on # 35 that was a “nutritionally” incorrect spelling
Comment by P. J. Hand — August 25, 2009 @ 7:51 am