Season Lightly With Salt, Poems and Recipes from the Test Kitchens of the San Francisco Wild Writing Women (Raven & Wren Press, 2024) is a joyful and sometimes bittersweet collection of poems and recipes that pays tribute to family, friends and community. Written by the San Francisco Wild Writing Women, poets Angie Minkin, Elise Kazanjian, Heather Saunders Estes, Kathryn Santana Goldman, and editor Robin Michel, this delectable book serves up poems centered around food and family and includes recipes from each poet’s test kitchen. Preparing and sharing meals with one another nurtures and sustains, comforts and consoles, and heightens our pleasures. Every palette will find something to satisfy their tastes in these poems and recipes from the various cultures blending in America’s stewpot. You will even learn how to read fortunes in a cup of Armenian Coffee. Visit the Raven & Wren Bookstore to order your copy now.

Poets Elise Kazanjian, Heather Saunders Estes, Angie Minkin, Robin Michel and Kathryn Santana Goldman