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Food is often likened to fashion. As with clothes, appetites are formed by trends. They are also sentimental. We pass down recipes in the same way we might offer a sibling a once-loved jumper. Our fondness of childhood dishes is rooted in the same stuff that evokes nostalgia for someone’s perfume.
My mother doesn’t wear perfume but she cooks a lot of comforting…
