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From The Odd Spot column of The Melbourne Age newspaper:

A PR movement to defend the culinary delicacy of Cornwall, England - the Cornish pastie - is gathering momentum after a leading US food critic derided the savory pie, saying it was more suitable as a doorstop than a treat.

From The Harp in the South by Ruth Park (Published in Ruth Park's "Harp in the South" Novels, Penguin Books, 1987):

Now Hughie had, long ago, been a shearer's cook, and could make a curry hot, sweet and luscious, with surprising bits of chopped-up date, green peaches, and sliced banana floating mysteriously in it. And he could make soup, and brownie, and the curiously named sea pie, which is nothing more than a stew with an oversized dumpling roofing it. But, best of all, he could make a boiled pudding, dark as midnight and rich as Persia, and containing so many dates, prunes, cherries, sultanas, and currants, that, as Hughie himself modestly said: "You couldn't spit between them." [Chapter 5, p. 236]
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From The Artful Universe by John D. Barrow (Oxford University Press, 1995):

Living things are made out of intricately organized collections of atoms and molecules. These bonds can be broken by excessive pressure or temperature. When they are, matter changes in properties, often irreversibly. Fry an egg, and you see what happens to the protein molecules in an egg-white when the temperature gets too high. Suddenly, they lose their fluid mobility and become rigid as the proteins in the egg-white solidify. When this change of state occurs, we say that the egg is 'cooked'. 'Cooking' is simply the attainment of the temperature at which intermolecular bonds are changed -- or 'denatured' as chemists say. (Others in my household assure me there is more to it than that.) [Chapter 3, p. 54]
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From Bill Bryson's African Diary by Bill Bryson:

"Oh, you will see plenty of Africa," Kentice assures me when we convene at the bar for a round of medicinal hydration. "We're going to show you lots of exotic things. Have you ever eaten camel?"
"Only in my junior high school cafeteria, and they called it lamb," I reply. [...]
[p. 14]
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