Coming home exhausted after high-school basketball practices, my Mother frequentlymet me with a platter of freshly fried dried apple pies and a refillable glass of milk.

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By the time he got to Roasted Pork Tenderloin with Dried Cranberry and Apple Stuffing and Cranberry-White Wine Reduction Sauce, Bill had bought a new meat thermometer, digital, with protruding wires and flashing lights that made it look as though he'd lifted the whole apparatus from an intensive care unit.

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Since then, each item had engraved itself in my memory, frozen in time: a bag of dried chickpeas, a cannister of salt, a withered Fuji apple, and the rock-hard stump of a baguette.

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Stornoway black pudding and apple gratin is nothing of the sort, and features sun-dried tomatoes and pine nuts.

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