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Thursday, November 30, 2006

Food limerick contest

Posted By on Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 9:57 AM

Suzanne Podhaizer, our new food writer, asked me to announce this limerick contest on my blog, so here it is:

Are you clever about cuisine? Enjoy writing lyrics about the larder? Then you should contribute to our first-ever Culinary Limerick Contest! Email your creations to [email protected]. The cream of the crop will be printed on December 27th. Entries must be received by December 15.

Forgotten how limericks go? Here's a sample:

A restaurant that's called Penny Cluse
is famed for fresh-squeezed citrus juice
They make tofu scram
They'd never serve Spam
But the crowd at the door is profuse

The prize for Seven Days' staff fave? Breakfast for two at Penny Cluse.

Cathy Resmer

Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at Seven Days as a freelance writer in 2001 and still has the Rolodex...