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“The final course of the meal is blueberry grunt, a traditional Nova Scotia dessert that faintly resembles a cobbler, but gets prepared on the stovetop. “It’s said,” Raynes tells us as we dive in, “that you can hear the blueberries grunt as the steam rises from the biscuits.” “I don’t know about the blueberries, but I can hear my husband grunting with delight.”

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