The document provides guidance on using similes, metaphors, and personification to describe foods in an evocative way. It includes examples of a tough steak described as tough as gel acrylic nails, and bland chicken described as screaming out for seasoning. It then prompts the reader to describe 3 foods using each figurative expression type. Finally, it shares an excerpt from a food review that effectively uses figurative phrases like "musty and meaty", "fugitive and memorable", and "pressed and precious and pristine, like a mermaid's packed lunch" to describe dishes.

1. Figurative foodUse similes, metaphors and personification to develop descriptions

2. Don’t ‘sDo’s

3. Steak is...toughWhat else is tough?A steak as tough as gel acrylic nails

4. Too much sauce....What does it look like?The flavours were drowned by a sauce

5. Chicken bland – needed somethingShow need through....The chicken was screaming out for seasoning

6. Now you try – chose 3 foods to describe using each type of figurative expression:Simile

7. Metaphor