“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
“The sky was peach and gold, a teacup of a morning, just enough clouds so as not to mock us.”
Elizabeth McCracken
more infosource: An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008), 100.
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“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
“I cooked the peaches as you told me, and they swelled to beautiful fleshy halves and tasted quite magic.”
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), 471.
category: cooking, food, peach, recipe, taste
medium: letter
notes: letter to Louisa Norcross (addressed Louise in the letter), Dickinson's first cousin, May 1870?; more info about her here
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