A good roast is rightly considered one of the good deeds. Poets do not always dwell in higher spheres; they also have a taste for earthly pleasures: Did you know that Schiller wrote a recipe for punch, Fontane one for beet soup, and Mörike one for Frankfurt Brenten, which contains such precise measurements that one could bake by it? From soup to dessert, with occasional detours into the kitchen and to cooks, food poems accompany the reader, mostly delightfully, sometimes heartwarming, but always appetizing.