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Season 13 Episode 7: Good Eats Turns 10
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Patrick Belden has known Alton for about 20 years and has provided music and sound effects for every episode of Good Eats.
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Season 11 Episode 15: Apple of My Pie
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Onscreen trivia: In pie lingo, the original name for a crust which enclosed a filling was coffyn.
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Onscreen trivia: The world's largest apple pie, measuring 18 feet round and 18 inches deep, was made at the 1982 Hilton Apple Fest.
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Onscreen trivia: In England, pie birds are still considered major collectibles.
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Season 11 Episode 11: Kinda Blue (Bluebe...
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Tapioca flour is a starch made from the root of the cassava or yuca plant.
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British WWII pilots were said to have better night vision because they ate jam made from blueberry's close cousin, the bilberry.
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The first buckle recipe on record is from Elsie Masterson's 1959 Blueberry Hill Cookbook.
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Native Americans called the blueberry "star-berry", due to its ruffled, five-pointed calyx.
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Season 11 Episode 6: Whithering Bites
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Onscreen trivia: Raisins are the most popular form of dried fruit, not to mention the oldest.
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Onscreen trivia: Drying times will vary depending on the temperature and humidity in your neck of the woods.
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Onscreen trivia: One of the first vegetable dehydrators was developed by French inventors, Mason and Challet, in 1795.
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Onscreen trivia: Several days of freezing after conditioning will kill any insect eggs hiding in organic fruit.
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Onscreen trivia: While many desirable nutrients are concentrated during the drying process, sugar is concentrated, too. So, munch accordingly.
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Season 11 Episode 4: Sub Standards
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No new recipes are included in this episode, although recipes from previous episodes are referenced, including Southern biscuits, coconut shrimp, cashew nut butter and The Chewy chocolate chip cookies.
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Crazy credits: "B.A." offers Alton a car wax dip with The Chewy cookies.
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Onscreen trivia: The word biscuit comes from the Old French word bescuit, meaning "twice cooked."
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Onscreen trivia: An estimated 1.5 million Americans have peanut allergies.
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Onscreen trivia: Other gluten-free flour substitutes include garbanzo beans, teff, sorghum and quinoa flours.
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Season 11 Episode 2: Pretzel Logic
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Onscreen trivia: The average American consumes 2 pounds of pretzels each year. In Philadelphia, it's more than 20 pounds.
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Onscreen trivia: In 1861, the first American pretzel factory opened in Lititz, Pennsylvania.
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