All it needs to make your kitchens smell like everything grand in this world and your friends sigh with joy and weep with nostalgia is fresh peaches, a minuscule pinch of cinnamon, an even smaller suggestion of nutmeg, a restrained amount of sugar heating until bubbly and glurping within the walls of a flaky, golden all-butter crust. Peach pie, the way it has always been made, is one of the universe’s most perfect foods and it needs nothing - not a vanilla bean, not a dash of thyme or grating of fresh ginger - to be the very embodiment of a midsummer’s dessert dream. Nevertheless, I hope we can all agree on one thing: Peach pie should be off limits. I found all of these things to be worthwhile improvements on the status quo in the same way that the person about to leave me a link to their favorite bacon chocolate chip cookie (the one that will change my mind) recipe in the comments does, but no doubt someone else out there found that that bourbon clashed terribly with bananas and feels justly that I owe them some cake. It seems that as long as web pages need updating, magazines need printing and food shows have new seasons to fill with programming, we’re going to have “new spins on the classics,” and I too have been known to hide bourbon in banana bread, do all sorts of unnatural things to latkes, and no, I will not apologize for the time I made a red velvet cake with red wine instead of the accepted vat of food dye. I don’t think it needs any flavor enhancement. And if everyone could stop putting cardamom pods in vanilla ice cream and custards, I wouldn’t mind one bit. It’s not a popular opinion, but I feel this way about bacon in chocolate chip cookies. I’ve done this when I discovered curry powder in a sweet potato pirogi (really, I’m grimacing as I type this). “Why? Why did they have to go and ‘fix’ this? It wasn’t broken!” No? It’s just me? Well, good on you for having some decorum, or at least a better poker face than your narrator. I am sure I’m not the only person who has ever been out to eat and bit into something they knew they’d love and nearly sobbed with disappointment over what could have been but was not.
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