Cast Iron Skillet: Kitchen Haiku

By Raymond Duane

Handwritten recipes, cast iron pans and 17 syllables converge in this eater friendly collection of poems and cook's notes.
A box of old handwritten recipes and cast iron pans, unseen and forgotten, released from dark storage after 15 lonely years.
"How long? Oh my, you're going to find treasures," the clerk said.
After the retrieval, the number 17 started floating in my dreams again. Researching what "17" symbolizes (again), I happened to click a site hosting a Kitchen Haiku contest.
Several verses are without recipe, a la carte haiku.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raymond Duane
• Release date: May 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005036003

Raymond Duane

Born in antiquity, I was raised with Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott and Mark Twain. I'd spend Friday nights with my grandmother and she would read to me. With sound effects and excitement.All I've ever wanted to be is a writer and dreamed of being Ernest Hemingway. (I got the drinking part right.)I worked for the college paper; was founding editor of a weekly newspaper; and I did a lot of magazine work, including for adult entertainment.That experience formed the basis of Noodle Boy in Porn Valley, which is very blue and very "adults only."My fantasy books are for Jill, my wife, who loves dragon stories with strange creatures and magick. Sword and sorcery, with a blend of mystical philosophy about life and love. She and I wrote a dragon story titled Fort Jafra and we're working on a follow-up.She and I published Unfinished Faces, a book of my poetry and her art. I also have written a few cookbooks. My characters like to eat.These days, I'm in rural Central Valley, with Jill, three dogs and five kittens I found in a discarded box in the walnut grove.

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