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Article: As English as apple pie.(THE HOME FORUM)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- January 24, 2005
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Byline: Kate Chambers
My mother says the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. She should know. Shortly after she married my father, in the not-so-romantically-named mining town of Coalville in central England, she asked him what his favorite food was.
Apple pie, my father said hopefully. Dad is a dessert man. His grandfather was a coal-miner, as were his brothers and his father. When the boys got home from a day on the coal face, they had to scrub the coal dust off their backs in an enamel bathtub before they were allowed to sit down for dinner.
Faced with a barrage of hungry male faces, my great-great-grandmother - so the story goes - ...