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“I miss my biscuit baby My flour power lady A friend to saints and sinners Up for breakfast, lunch or dinner She rises on her own She never makes me eat a scone My flour power lady Oh, I miss my biscuit baby”

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Book:My Biscuit Baby

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“They wheeled in golden carts covered in snacks and treats as pretty as treasure in a chest. There were cookies shaped like castles, tarts topped in glistening pastel fruit, poached pears in a swirling golden sauce, candied dates wearing miniature crowns, and oysters on ice with pink pearls that glistened under the light.”

Food Fairytale Magical Stephanie Garber Evangeline Fox Evangeline A Curse For True Love Whimsical Feast Sweets

Book:A Curse for True Love

Source: A Curse for True Love

“One day a customer asked Ettie what she was making for dinner. "Food," she answered without hesitation.”

Food Simplicity

Book:The Smartest Woman I Know

Source: The Smartest Woman I Know

“, Grandmother had the eye; the gift of clairvoyance. I don’t mean she ran a psychic hotline or could tell neighbors where their lost dog went. I mean she had the power to see – she could look at a pan of leftovers and tell exactly, to the spoonful, what size container was needed to store it in the fridge.”

Humor Family Food Southern

Book:It's a Southern Thing: Life's Different Here, Y'all

Source: It's a Southern Thing: Life's Different Here, Y'all

“Dancing also helped me make this change. If food and I had been battling, so had my body and I. In the culture I grew up in, the messages were so powerful that my girlfriends and I were wearing girdles to school by the time we were in junior high. When I began to dance, the old battle—me versus my body—was transformed. Instead of being just a problem to reshape and control, my body became a source of satisfaction and pleasure.”

Feminism Food

Book:Diet for a Small Planet: The Book That Started a Revolution in the Way Americans Eat

Source: Diet for a Small Planet: The Book That Started a Revolution in the Way Americans Eat

“What we eat is determined by the food around us, its price and how it's marketed--that is what needs to change.”

Food Health Eating Climate Change Nonfiction Obesity Dieting

Author:Chris van Tulleken

“Since we are born with strong tendences to be sensitive to others’ emotional expressions, we are less likely to consume foods when we perceive disgust in others as they consume those foods.”

Food Evolution Emotions Disgust Social Animal

Book:A Guide to the Psychology of Eating

Source: A Guide to the Psychology of Eating

“It would be squash fritters, squash pudding, pierogies stuffed with squash until autumn. Every year they ate squash until they were sick of it.”

Food

Book:Goblin Market

Source: Goblin Market

“At the dinner table... CALVIN, looking like an x-ray version of himself: Bombarded by high energy photons, Calvin is transformed into a living x-ray. CALVIN: Although this condition will facilitate future medical diagnoses, it does make Calvin's presence at the dinner table a disgusting ordeal. CALVIN: Everyone can see Calvin's food being ground into mushy pulp and swallowed! At this moment, Calvin chews up a large spoonful of creamed corn! CALVIN'S DAD, leaning in at the dinner table: For gosh sakes, close your mouth when you chew!! You think we want to SEE that? CALVIN, physically back to normal, except that his mouth is open amazingly wide, with full view of his current mouthful: MKGHH! SMACK! BLAGHKH!”

Children Humor Kids Food Meals Satire

Book:Yukon Ho!

Source: Yukon Ho!

“Cinnamon, I realized, is the flavor equivalent of being hugged by your grandmother.”

Food Grandmother Cozy Comfort Food Cinnamon

Book:The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor

Source: The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor

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