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      of food, novelists and philosophers occasionally do just that. ![]() A Southern Family by Gail Godwin (1987)  | 
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       "To Julia's alarm, (Mrs. Mullins) spooned a huge glob of Crisco into 
        a pot of otherwise appetizing-looking greens."   | 
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