At the table
ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT
A sweet-tooth TRUCE
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by KAITLYN GOALEN
Some houses are divided by sports team affiliations or politics. My house is divided by dessert.
I’ve always been a loyal cake fan, preferring a fat slice of carrot cake or a dense devil’s food as the way to end my meals. But most of the people I love insist on pie as the postprandial offering, especially around the holidays. My mother makes the same chocolate pie every single Christmas from a recipe in a community cookbook that my grandmother edited. My dad’s favorite thing in the world is apple pie – it doesn’t really even matter if it’s good or bad, because he gets almost as much enjoyment out of critiquing the unsatisfactory versions as he does in savoring the delicious ones. And my girlfriend’s desertisland dessert is coconut cream pie.
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photographs by JILLIAN CLARK
