“It was my father who insisted on turning everything into a treat. I remember his showing me how to eat a peach by building a little white mountain of sugar and then dipping the peach into it.”
Mary McCarthy
more infosource: Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1957), 10.
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category: childhood, father, fruit, memory, peach, sweet
medium: Memoir
“I know the look of green apples and peaches and pears on the trees, and I know how entertaining they are when they are inside of a person.”
Mark Twain
more infosource: Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 1 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010), 217.
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category: apple, farm, food, fruit, peach, pear
medium: autobiography
“A mutual plum is not a plum. I was too respectful to take the pulp and do not like a stone.”
Emily Dickinson
more infosource: The Letters of Emily Dickinson vol 2, ed. by Thomas H. Johnson (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958), 455.
category: fruit, mutual, plum, share
medium: letter
notes: letter to Mrs. J. G. Holland, late November 1866?
“The worm fattens on the apple, the young goose fattens on the wormy fruit, the man fattens on the young goose, the worm awaits the man.”
E. B. White
more infosource: “Cold Weather,” in One Man’s Meat (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1944), 345.
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category: apple, compost, cycle of life, farm, fruit, goose, nature, recycle, sustainability, worm
medium: essay
notes: White wrote this essay in January 1943.
“Only the Japanese would think of serving red watermelon in a green plate.”
Anaïs Nin
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