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“Every day, children are exposed to messages - whether on giant hoardings and TV ads or from looking in friends’ lunchboxes - telling them that they should like the very foods that will do them the most harm.”

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Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

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“America has developed a pie tradition unequivocally and unapologetically at the sweet end of the scale, and at no time is this better demonstrated than at Thanksgiving in November. It seems that the country goes pie-mad at this time, and the traditional pies reflect that this is harvest season.”

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Book:Pie: A Global History

Source: Pie: A Global History

“It is hardly surprising that to this day New England is considered to be the pie capital of America, whose inhabitants traditionally eat (sweet) pie for breakfast. Apple pies in particular became deeply embedded in the history of America - associated with the old country, the new country and the pioneering spirit, and indelibly identified with the sense of nationhood and patriotic sentiment.”

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Book:Pie: A Global History

Source: Pie: A Global History

“It’s not terribly fashionable any more to like bread. It’s sort of lucky that I’ve never managed to be fashionable, because I’ve always loved bread: I love it wholeheartedly and overwhelmingly. Sometimes I think there is no meal – no matter how thoughtful or beautiful or delicious”

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Book:Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For

Source: Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For

“A pie, like a building, requires construction after all.”

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Book:Pie: A Global History

Source: Pie: A Global History

“There were a number of reasons for decreeing abstention from meat. In ancient times meat was thought to inflame the passions (thereby distracting the mind from higher thoughts) whereas fish (or rather, creatures that lived in the water, which included whales and 'porpuses') were seen as cooling. It was also believed that the characteristics or habits of everything in the natural world would be transmitted to the eater, so the fact that fish did not have an obvious sex life added to its suitability for days of religious observance.”

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Book:Pie: A Global History

Source: Pie: A Global History

“Do not turn me into restless waters if you cannot promise to be my stream.”

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Author:Sanober Khan

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