4/15/2023 0 Comments Humble pie food![]() In Humble Pie, Anne Dimock offers a delightful combination of memoir, pie quotes, inspiration, recipes, travel writing, and assorted philosophical, cultural, and culinary musings on this powerful yet humble dessert.Īnne Dimock grew up in a household where, she notes, “A dearth of good pie was a hardship I never encountered, never knew must be borne up by most folk.” When she realized that the decline of the American pie civilization might be a harbinger of even deeper cultural problems, Anne became a woman on a mission to save pie from extinction.ĭimock shares her thoughts on the Zen of making pie crust, the politics of pie, judging a man’s character according to his pie protocol, state fair pie competitions, the kinship between pie and baseball, and the search for edible pie at roadside diners.įolksy and full of humor, Humble Pie is more than just an evocative journey through a life lived in pie. The similarity of the sound of the words, and the fact that umble pie was often eaten by those of humble situation could easily have been the reason for 'eat humble pie' to have come to have its current idiomatic meaning.In America, pie is a food–and a concept–that carries unusual resonance. ![]() (Incidentally, if you feel like girding your loins and aren't sure exactly where they are, the OED coyly describes them as 'the parts of the body that should covered with clothing'). The adjective humble, meaning 'of lowly rank' or 'having a low estimate of oneself' derived separately from umbles, which derives from Latin and Old French words for loins. This changing of the boundaries between words is called metanalysis and is commonplace in English. 'A numble pie' could easily have become an umble pie', in the same way that 'a napron' became 'an apron' and 'an ewt' became 'a newt'. It is possible that it was the pies that caused the move from numbles to umbles. "Mrs Turner came in and did bring us an Umble-pie hot out of her oven, extraordinarily good." "I having some venison given me a day or two ago, and so I had a shoulder roasted, another baked, and the umbles baked in a pie, and all very well done." Samuel Pepys makes many references to such pies in his diary for example, on 5th July 1662: Umbles were used as an ingredient in pies, although the first record of 'umble pie' in print is as late as the 17th century. There are many references to both words in Old English and Middle English texts from 1330 onward. By the 15th century this had migrated to umbles, although the words co-existed for some time. of animals, especially of deer - what we now call offal or lights. ![]() In the 14th century, the numbles (or noumbles, nomblys, noubles) was the name given to the heart, liver, entrails etc. The unpalatability of crow, boiled or otherwise, seems clear, but what about humble pie? In the USA, since the mid 19th century, anyone who had occasion to 'eat his words' by humiliatingly recanting something would be said to 'eat crow' (previously 'eat boiled crow'). Umbles, aprons and newts what have they in common? What's the origin of the phrase 'Eat humble pie'? Food and drink What's the meaning of the phrase 'Eat humble pie'?Īct submissively and apologetically, especially in admitting an error.
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