From Elaine Magarrell's poem "The Joy of Cooking," I got the sense that the narrator didn't so much like or get along with her brother and sister. She uses alot of good imagery and diction to reference cooking terms to cooking the parts of her siblings she doesn't particularly agree with.
I believe that she wanted to cook her sister's tongue because she was loud or talked alot. Maybe even the sister told on her or spread rumors. When she says, "it will probably grow back" (Magarrell), it is inferred that the sister can never stop this habit for anything. It is in the sister's personality to be a loud mouth. This obviously bothers the narrator.
Also, she picks the heart of her brother to cook. The quote "is firm and rather dry" implies that the narrator feels that her brother isn't kind or sympathetic. She later on in that second stanza even says, "although beef heart serves six my brother's heart barely feeds two." From this quote, I inferred that she felt her brother was mean or indifferent to her.
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