The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross …

Mark Twain
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The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as Southern corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite as bad as the Northern imitation of it. ✨ Mark Twain (1994). Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches, p.293, Penguin
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