Assistant clinical professor Richard Pepino designed the menu around his Italian family recipes after reading how Drexel students wrote about their families in “The Poetry of Food.” The ...

.@GlobeNames: Calvin Trillin’s Chinese food poem is not appetizing to some https://t.co/HYPcfzOB1N pic.twitter.com/cdk1r4Rhex — The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe ...

If Americans love Chinese food, then poetry that bashes Chinese food really doesn't stand a chance. After food writer Calvin Trillin's poem about Chinese food hit the internet, people have taken ...

A few random samples: Trillin acknowledged as much to the Guardian this week when he emailed to say that the poem "was simply a way of making fun of food-obsessed bourgeoisie." His attackers ...

A satirical poem in The New Yorker about Chinese food in the U.S. has left many Asian-American writers with a bad taste in their mouths. Writer Calvin Trillin thought he was giving a lighthearted ...

McDonald’s is putting its burgers where your mouth is, Kanye West. The fast-food giant responded to West’s poem “McDonald’s Man” with a tangy response of its own on Monday. West’s poem ...

The 28-line poem, a meditation on the wide variety of Chinese food available in the 21st century, appeared to some to slight a nation of more than one billion people by reducing them to menu options.