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1 " The difference between superlative pie and a wish for cake is crust. Understand that pie is a generous but self-centered substance. It likes attention, not affection. Do not hug your crust. Do not rub its back or five its high. Don't fuss with refrigerators every step oft he way. Keep the water and butter cold, and remember what a wise baker once said: The goal is pie. "
― Kate Lebo , A Commonplace Book of Pie
2 " Only those who will love longer than they expected to can truly love pecan pie, which doesn't explain its status as death rows most requested last dessert, or why chopped pecans, corn syrup, directions from the Karo bottle's cherry-red side are what mercy taste like to some. But there you have it. "
3 " If you love peanut butter pie, you are either Dolly Parton or someone who loves her. "
4 " Bad bananas are like push-up bras--a promise of tenderness can deliver tasteless mush, and we're not supposed to complain. "
5 " Never promise to make pie and fail to deliver on that promise. "
6 " shared understanding between healer and patient that the human body ends not at our skins but extends into nature; that what is in nature is also in us. It is not so much a list of prescriptions as a way of seeing and making sense of how a world that harms our bodies can also heal them. "
― Kate Lebo , The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with Recipes)
