‘How America Eats’ Chronicled the Tastes of a Nation | Eater
"A Texas county homemakers' market supplied a recipe for burnt sugar cake that the author attempted to reproduce; after two hours of toasting and stirring roughly two pounds of sugar the result was overwhelmingly and sickeningly sweet and essentially inedible, leaving the baker—and the narrator—saddened by an unfinished slice left by the sink." - Aimee Levitt
