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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 “Flavortown USA,” where food writing takes on a whole new spin.

Flavor Town USA Poetry: “The Hourglasses” from THE DUST THAT SINGS by Alex Gregor

The Hourglasses when i carried my fiddle down to the river of silver,i paddled upstream through currents of molassestill i … More

Alex Gregor, Flavor Town USA, Poetry

“Shiny Shiny,” a Flavor Town USA short story by Mollie Schofer

Shiny Shiny When you live in a forest, there isn’t much to do but lie on your side and eat … More

Fiction, flash fiction, Flavor Town USA, Mollie Schofer

Six Flavor Town USA Poems by Eddie Kim

  Untitled(With Final Line from Roethke) An elegant and corpulent diner in Costco sweatsis dancing at this buffet—the way chopsticks … More

Eddie Kim, Flavor Town USA, Poetry

“Requiem: Fin Inn,” a Flavor Town USA poem by Avery Gregurich

Requiem: Fin Inn for M.T. Let’s debate ovals, acoustics, the moral virtues ofcurveballs. We’ll do it loud, live, staggering atopthe … More

Avery Gregurich, Flavor Town USA, Poetry

Flavor Town USA Fiction: “Dangerous Soup” by Alicia Bones

  Diner comment cards from The Wild Boar:   “The soup’s the only thing I ever order because it’s the … More

Alicia Bones, Fiction, Flavor Town USA

Flavor Town USA: Five Capsicum Poems by Steven Ray Smith

  Tabasco I repeatI was not named afterthat vinegary tincture you sluice upon your cackleberries You and I have not … More

Flavor Town USA, Poetry, Steven Ray Smith

Flavor Town USA Fiction: “Cake Every Day” by Mike Lewis-Beck

  LIAM FINDS HIMSELF AT A crossroads. His wife, Carla, has exiled him from their comfortable Iowa home, and he’s … More

Fiction, Flavor Town USA, Mike Lewis-Beck

Flavor Town USA: Three Poems by Jennifer Martelli

  We baked pearls made of denture material in a blueberry pie —Efferdent Commercial The first satisfaction is the fork … More

Flavor Town USA, Jennifer Martelli, Poetry

“After the Hot Dog Eating Contest,” a Flavor Town USA poem by Avery Gregurich

After the Hot Dog Eating Contestfor Dean Young I too have to start with a bite out of the middle … More

Avery Gregurich, Flavor Town USA, Poetry

Flavor Town USA Poetry: “On Eggs” by Evan Williams

  Scrambled  poached  over easy   over medium   over hard   sunny side up   hard boiled   soft boiled screaming   with tabasco   with … More

Evan Williams, Flavor Town USA, Poetry

“Friendship Noses,” a Flavor Town USA poem by Adam Coday

Friendship Noses The moment it’s worth it, I’ll eatthe pickled Brussels sprouts. —the moment I prefer the needleto fix the … More

Adam Coday, Flavor Town USA, Poetry

“Debt,” a Flavor Town USA nonfiction essay by Christopher Bowen

ARE YOU HUNGRY THE WAY I used to be? When I was a culinary student, I was always hungry and … More

Christopher Bowen, creative nonfiction, Essay, Flavor Town USA

“When the Chicken Slowly Cooks You Back,” a short story for Flavor Town USA by Harrison Cook

WHEN MY GRANDMA WAS ON the farm, she snapped around one thousand chicken necks and in one day killed, boiled, … More

Fiction, Flavor Town USA, Harrison Cook

Danny Caine: Three FLAVORTOWN Poems from HFR Vol. 9

Last Will & Testament When I die bury me at Randall Park Mallbeside the pebbled fountain where coiny wateronce bubbled, … More

Danny Caine, Flavor Town USA, HFR Archives, Poetry, Vol. 9

Fiction by Marcus Pactor: “Cake”

—after Blake Butler THE CAKE REMINDED ME OF the twins’ wet sludge food. I could never shovel it well enough … More

Fiction, Flavor Town USA, HFR Archives, HFR Vacancies, Marcus Pactor, short story, Vacancies

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