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[quote=Anonymous]I’m from Eastern PA, Pennsylvania Dutch, and ate a lot of overcooked, bland food growing up. My mother believes salt and pepper are the only spices needed in cooking and is not interested in trying any others. I vividly recall the fish we ate on Fridays — a thin white filet baked at 375 for 1 hour. On the other hand, we had steak that was still cold inside — my father wanted to “see the blood run down his fork”. 
At the same time, we also had lots of fresh fruit in the summer and good fresh tomatoes, onions, beans from the farmer who came around selling things from the back of his truck. Our neighbors had a sour cherry tree in their yard and we’d pick cherries for my mom to make a pie— using a store bought crust, but still great. Got apples from another yard and mom would make apple crisp. 
I eat a vastly more diverse set of foods as an adult, but I still have very good memories of what I ate as a kid. 
Also, there were lots of Eastern European immigrants in my area and I loved eating pierogies, halupki, kiffels, goulash, and other foods that were not part of my family cooking but available from neighbors, church festivals, etc. [/quote]

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