America's Poet Emeritus Maya Angelou has just come out with her very first cookbook. I'm not much of a cook, but I have to say I'm really, really enjoying it. Here's one of what must be a hundred simple, evocative recipes suffused with her own particular brand of poetry.

Nachos
My grandfather used to sit on the porch
   while my grandmother toiled over the stove.
Wise and strong, she spread
   salty Doritos in a pan,
topped them with biting orange cheese
   piquant jalapeños 
   and briny olives
and broiled them underneath the fire
      of her desire.

The cheese is my burden.
      I am those chips.

Makes a great halftime snack.