On The Origin Of Peach Cobbler

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     Can I tell you something I just recently learned? I was reading a cookbook which gave a short history of some of the items listed. It mentioned that some of our "old fashioned" American desserts evolved out of a need for calories. Specifically, some old style cakes, pies and cobblers were created simply to get calories into nineteenth century farmers and their communities. Those generations needed three thousand or more calories per day to work the farms. One of the ways the cooks got the needed calories into them was to develop and serve hearty and rich desserts, like cobblers.
     Nowadays, with our primarily sedentary lifestyles, not many American males need more than about two thousand calories per day, 1/3 fewer than when Lincoln was in the White House. Few females need more than about fifteen hundred. Yet some of us are still eating those pies and cakes  regularly. If you really sit back and contemplate this, it's very sobering. Eating that stuff does absolutely nothing healthy for our bodies. Yet some people still do it often. As a special treat, I'm all for desserts. In fact, I've never met a cake I didn't like. But regularly? Isn't my health more important than that?