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Pow Wow Chowder
Lizzie Warren’s one fine cook.
Her recipes are in a book.
The book is titled "Pow Wow Chow”.
The meals therein make you say, “How?’
Open it and you will see
Meals from Mohawk, Cherokee,
Blackfoot, Hopi, Abenaki,
Even those who sell tobacci.
Within this tome you’ll find a spree
Of long-held, secret recipes.
Each one an heirloom family dish
Containing pony, dog or fish.
Liz’s meals aren’t made with maize.
They date from when the gourmet craze
Became our nation’s cooking passion
And arcane meals came into fashion.
Find inside this gourmet bomblet
Elizabeth's Cold Crabmeat Omelet.
This tasty treat may be delicious,
But it’s origin’s suspicious.
That she includes it is quite zany--
The recipe was by Chef Franey.
’twas printed for the world to use
In the New York Daily News,
And published many moons before.
She says it came from family lore.
Oh, so tempting—not the meal,
But the recipe--to steal
Another’s work, then, with chutzpah,
To call it hers. A lazy squaw!
October 2018 · Books