Life's feast!
Baked in an outpost of empire,
Buccan style; barbacoa.
Exotic toothsome delicacies
Cooked with cassia bark from India and
Cinnamon from Serendip
Dusted with Spanish saffron, and
Anise fetched down the silk-road from China.
Dilled fish-flesh and
Porcine morsels in gingered juices;
Coney steeped in junipered gin!
Pullets lashed in the red wine of Tarragon; and
Medallions of pink, stuck with cloves and
Roasted ripe with rosemary!