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Category: Flavor Town USA
Calling all gluttons, picky eaters, fry cooks, servers: get on the grill with the burnt edges for HFR. Welcome to “Flavor Town USA,” where food writing takes on a whole new spin.
Poetry for Flavor Town USA: “In Foil” by Kath DeGennaro
In Foil It’s something about the way you have to hold it in your handsthe way your mother might have … More
“Take-Out,” an original fiction by Kip Knott for Flavor Town USA
Take-Out Sometimes Clay can’t believe he still lives in the house he grew up in. His dad still lives there, … More
Flavor Town USA Fiction: “Sin Eaters LLC” by Will Musgrove
Sin Eaters LLC It was my first day. Inside the company vehicle, my trainer, Bob, read me the client’s file: … More
Flavor Town USA Poetry: “We Feed the Living” by Courtney LeBlanc
We Feed the Living The week my father died I dugthrough the freezer and pantryin my parents’ house, pulled outthe … More
New Flavor Town USA Fiction by Tyler Dillow: “Cherry Rum Flavor”
Cherry Rum Flavor Deep red cherries in a bowl—I pit them, half them, soak them in rum. These are for … More
Flavor Town USA Poetry: “Michelin Star Stool” by Adam Berlin
Michelin Star Stool Le Cirque’s maitre d’leads us past candelabrasdripping wax on polishedcornucopias, mostly Dionysian grapes. He pulls chairs, takes … More
Avery Gregurich: Two Poems for Flavor Town USA
The Recipe Said When Picking Rhubarb, Red or Green Would Doafter Ted Kooser head to walt’s house north of the … More
Three Collaborative Poems by Lauren Hilger & Dionissios Kollias for Flavor Town USA
Party Favors I pretend it’s the fast and vicious future with a slow sax and 1991 looming overblack sheer tights, … More
Flavor Town USA Poetry: “Beer Can Chicken Primer: Revised” by Avery Gregurich
Beer Can Chicken Primer: Revised never ask the scout leader about the troop’s beer can chicken recipe because you are … More
Flavor Town USA: Excerpts from ROSE MASK, service conversations by Jared Joseph
Excerpts from Rose Mask Rose Mask is a series of transcriptions of conversations between myself and the customers I served … More
Two Poems for Flavor Town USA by Avery Gregurich
I Keep Guzzling Bug Juice, Thirsty As I Am I can never leave the Casey’s convenience store without myBug Juice. … More
Poem for Flavor Town USA: “Testimony (Toward JELL-O® Cake)” by Avery Gregurich
Testimony (Toward JELL-O® Cake) I am reminded of birth by JELL-O®. My mom kept the couponed color, no matter near … More
“Driving Through Geneva” a poem for Flavor Town USA by Avery Gregurich
Driving Through Geneva for Wallace Ferguson Driving through Geneva is not a peaceful practice, holds nopractical mayhem beyond a Cracker … More
“Two Little Stories about Black Beans”: A Flavor Town USA Fiction by Eli S. Evans
Two Little Stories about Black Beans 1. I was in my twenties and living in the sort of apartment one … More