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Fictitious Dishes: An Album of Literature's Most Memorable Meals QUOTES

1 " Bananas are the world's fourth most popular agricultural crop (after wheat, rice and corn) with over 100 billion eaten yearly. "

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2 " Food is prevalent in the novel (To Kill A Mockingbird), with many mentions of tempting Southern treats, including ambrosia, turnip greens, Lane cake, crackling bread, peach pickles, dewberry tarts, fried pork chops and Nehi cola. "

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3 " Pie is the food of the heroic. No pie-eating people can be permanently vanquished.
-May 3, 1902 article in New York Times "

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4 " Reading and eating are natural companions, and they’ve got a lot in common. Reading is consumption. Eating is consumption. Both are comforting, nourishing, restorative, relaxing, and mostly enjoyable. They can energize you or put you to sleep. Heavy books and heavy meals both require a period of intense digestion. Just as reading great novels can transport you to another time and place, meals—good and bad ones alike—can conjure scenes very far away. "

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5 " It is estimated that Italians eat an average of sixty pounds of pasta yearly--- a large bowl of pasta six days a week. "

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