Potatoes In Wintertime

Penned by Robert Frost
Reed Words
by Reed Words
Robert Frost

A little, yellow, gleaming spud
Illuminates December mud.
So begins deliberation –
On potatoes and their preparation.

Is it water or fire they should meet,
To be transformed by steady heat?
Gathered up and thrown to boil,
Or roasted crisp in rosemary oil?

Each has their virtue and their claim.
Each would satisfy the same.
And if I could but cook them twice,
I think both options would suffice.

Boil or roast? Boil or roast?
All are worthy of this host.
I make good upon my yearly oath:
I will have both. I will have both.


Peruse the rest of the fantastical feast

Roasted goose

Summoned into festive life through that most beneficent of storytellers, Mr Charles Dickens

Layers of You (What a Trifle)

Sung by Michael Bublé

Mashed potatoes

Made by Ernest Hemingway

Sprouts

by Sally Rooney

plant-based pigs in blankets

an ode by Rupi Kaur

Eggnog

As narrated by Sir David Attenborough

Prawn cocktail

RuPaul spilling the tea

Sticky toffee pudding

Guided by Anthony Bourdain

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