"The smell of coffee cooking was a reason for growing up, because children were never allowed to have it and nothing haunted the nostrils all the way out to the barn as did the aroma of boiling coffee."
"Greens are a dish that most Southerners would walk a mile for."
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Source: Edna Lewis (2013). “In Pursuit of Flavor”, p.33, Knopf
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